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Biosphere 2

What happens when you seal eight people in a giant bubble?

11 July 2018

From oxygen shortages to divisive factions, Mark Nelson recalls the challenges of two years in the Biosphere 2 ecosystem – and the media circus it spawned
Don Swanson

The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died

17 May 2017

But for a chance decision, Don Swanson would have been killed in the Mount St Helens eruption of 1980. That day changed his life, and volcanology, forever

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