Nearly half of the world’s flowering plants face the threat of extinction, study says

A less colorful world looms on our horizon. Almost half of the world’s flowers are in danger of extinction, according to a recent preprint posted on biorxiv.org. A group of scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in Richmond, U.K., built a model that uses artificial intelligence, or AI, to guess whether a plant species … Continue reading Nearly half of the world’s flowering plants face the threat of extinction, study says