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THE BONDS THAT hold nature together may be at risk of unraveling from deforestation, overfishing, development, and other human activities, a landmark United Nations report warns. Thanks to human pressures, one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of life on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe evidence is crystal clear: Nature is in trouble. Therefore we are in trouble,\u201d said Sandra D\u00edaz, one of the co-chairs of the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. A 40-page \u201cSummary for Policy Makers\u201d of the forthcoming full report (expected to exceed 1,500 pages) was released May 6 in Paris. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE BONDS THAT hold nature together may be at risk of unraveling from deforestation, overfishing, development, and other human activities, a landmark United Nations report warns. Thanks to human pressures, one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of life… One million species at risk of extinction, UN report warns A landmark global assessment warns that the window is closing to safeguard biodiversity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news","category-susatinable-food","category-what-to-read-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}