Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm
- Written by Jaco Le Roux, Associate Professor, Macquarie University
Plant extinctions have skyrocketed, driven in large part by land clearing and climate change.Graphic Node/Unsplash, CC BY-SA
Earth is seeing an unprecedented loss of species, which some ecologists are calling a sixth mass extinction. In May, a United Nations report warned that 1 million species are threatened by extinction. More recently, 571 plant...
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