Study finds the climate crisis, agriculture and pesticide use threaten relatives of the world’s most important crops, considered crucial to food security.
Scientists have long drawn up a Red List to alert officials about wildlife and plant species threatened with extinction. Now some say it’s time to flip the script and create a “green status” category that identifies how to bring these species back to sustainable levels.
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to urge world leaders and institutions to safeguard biodiversity as they work to curb climate change and support human welfare at a global summit starting on Friday, September 3, 2021, in southern France.
Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said on Monday, May 6, 2019, in the United Nations' first comprehensive report on biodiversity.