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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 a

The theory of island biogeography, introduced by E.O. Wilson and colleagues in the 1960s, states that the crucial factor in the life and death of species is the amount of habitat available to them. As habitats are reduced in size, the diversity within them declines to a mathematically

This article originally appeared in the New York Times, April 21, 2019 Life on Mars Should Not Look This Appealing By Maeve Higgins, Contributing Opinion Writer Before we set our sights on other planets, let’s take better care of Earth. Photograph courtesy of NASA A couple of years ag

This article originally appeared in “The New York Times,” February 28, 2019 By the Book: Edward O. Wilson The naturalist and entomologist, whose new book is “Genesis,” loves a reptile guide called “Lizards and Snakes of Alabama,” which “speaks to my boyhood passion and is

Jillian Tamaki In this March 4, 2018 New York Times Sunday Review opinion piece, E.O. Wilson explains why species are the fundamental level of study that must be used to identify conservation priorities, and how the Half-Earth Project map is leading the way. “The 8 Million S

“We Are All Noah Now.” By Thomas L. Friedman, Op-Ed Columnist Originally published in The New York Times, September 7, 2016 HONOLULU — Robert Macfarlane, in his book Landmarks, about the connection between words and landscapes, tells a revealing but stunning story about ho

In this morning’s New York Times Op-Ed, E.O. Wilson explains why we must vastly increase the area of protected natural reserves in order to conserve the immensity of life upon which we absolutely depend, and which depends upon us. “The Global Solution to Extinction”

Writing in the New York Times, E.O. Wilson reflects on his childhood and the great influence that the 1942 edition of Handbook for Boys, the official guide of the Boy Scouts of America, has had on his life. Many of the themes E.O. Wilson touches on in this essay are essential componen