Tag: Plant Species

London: The world’s botanic gardens contain at least 30 per cent of all known plant species, including 41 per cent of all those classed as “threatened”, a new study revealed on Monday. Through analysing datasets compiled by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), the team led by researchers from the University of Cambridge cross-referenced the working list […]

Paris: Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history and the rate of species’ extinction is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) said on Monday. It found that around one million animal and […]

New York: Researchers have revealed that one in three species of plants and animals could face extinction by 2070 because of climate change. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, estimated broad-scale extinction patterns from climate change by incorporating data from recent climate-related extinctions and from rates of species […]