News Headline

Mass extinction fears widen: 22 percent of world's plants endangered

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2010-09-29

Scientific warnings that the world is in the midst of a mass extinction were bolstered today by the release of a new study that shows just over a fifth of the world's known plants are threatened with extinction—levels comparable to the Earth's mammals and greater than birds.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0928-hance_plantendangered.html