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Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life

13 mins | May 13, 2019
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Hundreds of scientists have come together to compile 15,000 academic studies and reports from indigenous communities who are living on the frontline of change in a damning UN report in May 2019. Their findings report 1 million species are at risk of extinction. Jonathan Watts, writing in the Guardian, reports on the magnitude of this and the ramifications for human society.

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