The Half-Earth Project proposed by famed ecologist E.O. Wilson will be the subject of the next Moonlighting discussion at ESF. In his book, "Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life," Wilson recommends ...

Edward O. Wilson, the prolific Harvard professor emeritus, has made a career of elevating biology to the realm of public discourse. His dozens of books have introduced the nation to the peculiar ...

To conserve life on Earth (as we know it) in the face of climate change, we need a drastic solution, and a growing movement has a bold plan: set aside half of the planet’s surface for just nature.

An acclaimed biologist’s call for preserving half of earth’s surface to save the planet. An acclaimed biologist’s call for half earth, preserving half of the earth’s surface to save the planet, clean ...

Adding large swaths of “wild areas” to the current network of protected areas in order to protect half of the Earth doesn’t mean more species will be protected, or that a larger portion of species’ ...

A much-anticipated book in conservation and natural science circles is EO Wilson’s Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, which is due early next year. It builds on his proposal to set aside half ...

It’s not just elephants and rhinos, wild animal numbers in general have halved in the past four decades as the world’s human population has doubled. Half the Earth’s vertebrates – birds, reptiles, ...

We are in an extraordinary moment. Awareness of the risks facing our planet is growing and people are leaning forward, looking for a hopeful solution. On Half-Earth Day, October 23, thought leaders ...

Half-Earth is the notion that for humans to survive, we must retain earth’s waning biodiversity by reserving half the planet for nature, stabilizing large swaths of ocean, prairie, rainforest and ...

This Monday, October 23, marks the first-ever Half-Earth Day. The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and National Geographic timed the event to occur exactly half a year after Earth Day (April 22).