A new RBG Kew study found that 40% of the world’s plant species are facing threats of extinction.

In this Riskin Report, watch CTV News’ Science and Technology Specialist
Dan Riskin break down how plant life helps humans and which threats pose the greatest problems for plants.
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8 comments

  1. We can thank Conservative governments for removing environment protecting regulations and ignoring obvious climate change and its causes. As usual, we’ll have to wait till it effects them personally before they wake up.

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