Forest loss and degradation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Rising global
wood demand threatens further damage to remaining native forests. Contrasting solutions …

How to feed, house, clothe and power 11 billion of us without eliminating very many species
and wrecking Earth's climate is perhaps this century's greatest challenge. We must obviously …

Many global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land
degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high …

Current large-scale patterns of land use reflect history, local traditions, and production costs,
much more so than they reflect biophysical potential or global supply and demand for food …

The total emission mitigation potential achievable by the year 2030, calculated based on
sectoral assessments, is sufficient to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to half of the …

As humanity's demand for resources continues to rise and productive arable lands become
increasingly scarce, many of Earth's remaining intact regions are at heightened risk of …

As demand for wood products increases in step with global population growth, balancing the
potentially competing values of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage and timber …

Selective logging causes at least half of the emissions from tropical forest degradation.
Reduced-impact logging for climate (RIL-C) is proposed as a way to maintain timber …

Environmental studies regularly use the net present value (NPV) to value benefits and costs
of projects. However, the NPV disregards whether the stream of net benefits is steady or …

Highlights•Half Earth's prosocial environmental messaging could expand societal
engagement in conservation.•Half Earth is the largest land reallocation and governance …