At Biosphere 2, Earth's woes could run at `fast forward' From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 30, 1991| Author: David L. Chandler, Globe Staff | Copyright (null) The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

For the next two years, the eight people who entered the completely sealed environment of Biosphere 2 last week will be confronting an intensified version of the problems of pollution, waste management and limited resources that face the planet as a whole.

In Biosphere 2, the timescale for potential disaster is greatly speeded up, and one of the main lessons of the grand and controversial experiment will be how well the Biospherians fare in keeping their miniature world habitable.

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