A new U.N. report says that one in three plant and animal species face extinction given the rate of human production and consumption. "The report is one of the starkest issued by the UN and the decision to draw an explicit link between extinction rates and economic growth makes it politically sensitive. It will point out that the extinction threat extends across all main ecosystems, affecting living things as diverse as tree frogs, coral reefs and river dolphins."

Read it at The Sunday Times of London