Five Fixes for a Biodiverse Planet

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Sign up for our free newsletters 5 Fixes for a Biodiverse Planet The natural world gives us the air that we breathe, the food that we eat, and a bounty of medicines and materials. Preserving biodiversity and wildlife is the best insurance we have against an unknown future. Here are five ways to keep our fellow inhabitants of Planet Earth healthy. The Black Death holds a surprising lesson: Humans and biodiversity can go hand in hand When the Black Death depopulated Europe, abandoned farmland reverted to forest—and plant diversity declined. The lesson may complicate modern calls to simply “let nature take over.”