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“From Backyard Ant-Watching to World Ecology Award: A Conversation with E.O. Wilson” By Evie Hemphill This article originally appeared on the website for St. Louis Public Radio, April 17, 2018 Edward O. Wilson’s long career has been marked by enormous contributions to the field of biology, with an impact on global conservation efforts that is difficult to overstate. All of it grew out

This article originally was published in The Harvard Gazette, March 29, 2018. By Alvin Powell. Biologist E.O. Wilson and former National Park Service director envision massive conservation effort to stem extinction The extinction of our swimming, trotting, slithering, and flying companions on Earth is a building global disaster on a par with climate change, but one that has a solution, according t

The Florida torreya is North America’s most endangered conifer, with less than one percent of its population remaining. Now, scientists are mounting a last-ditch effort to save the torreya and are considering using new gene-editing technologies to protect it.  By Janet Marinelli, March 27, 2018 Edward O. Wilson clambered partway down a slope in the Florida Panhandle, aided by a park ranger and tra