Vast Extinction Crisis Looms
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEW) will publisha report on Wednesday stating that more than 11,000endangered animal and plant species, including more than1,000 mammal species, or 1/4 of the world’s total, arelikely to go extinct over the next few decades. 12% of birdspecies and over 5,000 different plant species are alsolikely to die out. In the oceans, the loss is already almostimmeasurable, with almost all major species of larger fishat risk, and massive diebacks of plankton in the Antarctic,the North Sea and elsewhere contributing to the destructionof whole ecologies.
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