Humans Are Speeding Up Extinction and Altering the Natural World
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.
Marshall Islands Nuclear Dome Leak Could Poison Marine Life in Pacific
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.