Germany’s Gorgeous Black Forest Named UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Source: mnn.com Published: June 22, 2017 Photo: Baciu/Shutterstock UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme gives biosphere reserve status to locations that are great examples of balanced relationships between people and their environment, where economic development...

Costa Rica’s Savegre River Joins Network of Biosphere Reserves

Source: mnn.com Published: June 21, 2017 Photo: Tim Zurowski/Shutterstock Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization added 23 new sites to its World Network of Biospheres. These locations are intended to be “learning places for...

Biosphere 2: A Glass-Encased Artificial Earth in the Arizona Desert

Source: slate.com Published: September 5, 2013 Some rights reserved by clauretan By Atlas Obscura With dreams of colonizing Mars, John P. Allen, who made his millions in oil, funded the building of Biosphere 2 in the middle of the Arizona desert. (Planet earth is...