At Biosphere 2, food is running low

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: March 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Biosphere 2, the huge hermetically sealed greenhouse in the Arizona desert where eight people are trying to live a self-sufficient existence, has suffered through one problem after another. Carbon dioxide built up in the air and oxygen plummeted, necessitating an oxygen infusion. From the start, disputes about the project's scientific merits have been trumpeted in the media, and now food supplies are running low.

But through it all, the eight Biospherians -- increasingly thin, pale and weary-looking -- have continued their day-to-day duties, determined to prove that the experiment really ...

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