The University of Arizona may lease the terrarium for large-scale climate experiments.

azcentral adds: "Pinal County Supervisor Lionel Ruiz, whose district includes the Biosphere 2 land, said the development will be good for the area but must be approached cautiously and be well-planned. "I don't want to see just a whole bunch of rooftops from Tucson all the way to Oracle," he said. "We want to see sustained communities and some open spaces and wildlife corridors. Like anything else, if they come in with proper plans, it'll make it a plus."

I like the way this guy thinks!

I had visions housing estate, and thought, surely if there is any chance of saving the Planet, we should be able to get a working ecosystem on a small scale.There is then the hope there will be more of understanding on a large scale. At the moment , all we can hear is speculation and incomplete analysis. We know that the planet is disintegrating ecologically, but the example of the biosphere shows that fixing it may be beyond us. There once was a recipe, which we threw out before we learned what was written. Now we're running out of time to cook, we're short on ingredients, and we lost the recipe. We can still make it up as we are going along.