In a never-before-seen interview, E.O. Wilson sat down with The New York Times in 2008 to talk about his lifelong quest to explore and to protect the planet’s biodiversity. By Erik Olsen, James Gorman ...

What treasures of the natural world are we about to lose forever? Newly discovered plants and animals whose potential benefits are still unknown are being threatened by human activity. Neal Conan ...

The Half-Earth Project proposed by famed ecologist E.O. Wilson will be the subject of the next Moonlighting discussion at ESF. In his book, "Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life," Wilson recommends ...

The Ants, says Wilson, "is a synthesis of everything we know--not just the natural history and classification of ants, but a lot of ideas in population biology, microevolution, genetics, biochemistry, ...

The late evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson warned against the continuation of species loss and coined a different term for our epoch — the Eremocene, the age of loneliness. Laura Marris’ debut, “The ...

An 8,000-acre nature preserve in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta — one of the most biodiverse places on Earth — will be named for one of Alabama’s most famous scientists: E.O. Wilson. The Nature ...

CLARKE COUNTY, Ala.—In the Land Between the Rivers, even the poison ivy tries to grow vertically. Locked in a constant race against time and tides, the vine sends its notorious three-leaf clusters ...