Nature

Few weeks ago the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alarmed that a large concrete nuclear dome constructed 40 years ago in the Marshall Islands contains radioactive waste from Cold War-era nuclear tests conducted by the United States.

Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity's burgeoning growth is putting the world's biodiversity at perilous risk.