40 Percent of World's Plants at Risk of Extinction, New Report Finds

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By Jordan DavidsonSep 30, 2020, 1:12 pm340 pts
A grim new assessment of the world's flora and fungi has found that two-fifths of its species are at risk of extinction as humans encroach on the natural world, as The Guardian reported. That puts the number of species at risk near 140,000. The new report, State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2020, and an…

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