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  E.O. Wilson Day in Mobile; A special program, introduced by Mobile writer and filmmaker, Ben Raines, will be presented at the Mobile Museum of Art on Friday, October 7, 2022, 5 – 7:30 pm; the program of speakers and filmed selections will be followed by a reception and exhibition opening in the museum gallery. Duke University professor and photographer Alex Harris approached

Planet Earth benefits us every day. Food, medicine, security, wellbeing. These fundamentals are only possible because of the countless other species with whom we share our planet—and the places they call home. Biodiversity, or the complex web of life in our planet’s ecosystems, is critical to our survival. But development and climate change are wiping out species before we can even discover them.

  The Washington Post and other outlets reports on a paper released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of scientists from the University of Hong Kong analyzed 489 studies and concluded that the total mass of ants on Earth weighs in at about 12 megatons of dry carbon, a standard way of measuring animals’ biomass. But ants are in trouble. The worldwide decline of en