REPORTS of the death of numerous species on Earth have been greatly exaggerated, according to a team of scientists.
Extinction rates have been wildly overestimated, partly because of misconceptions about how many plants and animals exist on Earth, researchers said. They claim globally about 1% of species are likely to be vanishing per decade rather than the 5% figure some experts have proposed.
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