Food Plants


Last chance to stop plant catastrophe


Time is running out if we are going to prevent climate change leading to a mass extinction of plants.













Jan Banningipanos Page 8. 16 September 2006 New Scientist



1 in 4 of Earth's 40,000 plant species are already on the brink.


Environments are changing faster than plants can migrate, and this could cause half of Europe's plant species to be lost in the next 80 years.

A worldwide action plan is urgently needed to avert an “impending crisis”.

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