How much of the Earth should we protect to save species from going extinct? Some conservationists have suggested an ambitious number: half of the planet. Prominent biologist Edward O. Wilson, for ...

EcoSense for Living. Saving Half the Earth. 4/17/2023 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The E.O. Wilson Foundation continues to lead the movement to preserve half the earth..

In other words: the Earth has just half as many animals as it did in 1970. I’ll give you a minute to let that sink in. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund.

What If. What If the Earth Was Cut in Half? Posted: October 18, 2024 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 "Ripping Earth in half might not mean instantaneous death for everyone on the planet.

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. The half-ton craft, known as Kosmos-482, was designed to land on Venus but ...

When I first learned that October 22 marks Half-Earth Day, I thought it was because the date is six months to Earth Day. (True.) But it’s got a message all its own, writes Lydia Strohl.

But there was a time — half a billion years ago, give or take — when Earth’s magnetic field became much weaker. And that magnetic collapse might have actually helped spark an explosion of ...

To many humans, soil is just the dirt under our feet. But new research shows that for more than half of all species on Earth, soil is crucial habitat—and an imperiled one at that. “I think ...

Letter: Keeping half the Earth free of humans — that’s an idea! on twitter (opens in a new window) Letter: Keeping half the Earth free of humans — that’s an idea! on facebook ...

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. The half-ton craft, known as Kosmos-482, was designed to land on Venus but ...

When I first learned that October 22 marks Half-Earth Day, I thought it was because the date is six months to Earth Day. (True.) But it’s got a message all its own, writes Lydia Strohl.