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This Opinion piece originally appeared in The New York Times on August 21, 2020. When ants are accidentally marked as dead, they find a way to rejoin the living. By Edward O. Wilson Dr. Wilson is an emeritus professor at Harvard and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. Every corpse is an ecosystem. Each fallen bird, landed fish, beached whale, decomposing log, plucked flower is destined to change fr

A two-part series exploring how biophilic cities can advance the goal of Half-Earth, both within and beyond their boundaries. (above image: Lombard Street, San Francisco. Image Credit: Allie Caulfield on Flickr.) By Tim Beatley, Founder & Executive Director of Biophilic Cities; Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, University of Virginia E.O. Wilson has given us two essential and

The Half-Earth Project is working to halt and reverse the species extinction crisis currently facing our planet. To accomplish this, we are mapping species globally to identify the best places to protect the most species, and to use this information to wisely expand current species protections on land and sea to 50% of the Earth’s surface. In a commentary published recently in Mongabay, Jody Hilty