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40% of world’s plant species at risk of extinction

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Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global data showsTwo in five of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction as a result of the destruction of the natural world, according to an international report.Plants and fungi underpin life on Earth, but the scientists said they were now in a race against time to find and identify species before they were lost. Continue reading...

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Global study finds that species numbers reported in the wild fell sharply between 1990 and 2015The...
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Insect-destroying fungi ‘may represent the next frontier for drug discovery’Two new fungi species that infect flies...
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