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Half Earth
'''''Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life''' is a 2016 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, the last in a trilogy beginning with The Social Conquest of Earth (2012) and The Meaning of Human Existence (2014). Half-Earth'' proposes that half of the Earth's surface should be designated a human-free natural reserve to preserve biodiversity. Wilson noted that the term "Half-Earth" was coined for this concept by Tony Hiss in his Smithsonian article "Can the World Really Set Aside Half the Planet for Wildlife?"

The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms
Scientific book about earthworms by Charles Darwin, 1881

The Sixth Extinction
popular science book by Elizabeth Kolbert