25% of the world's mammals face extinction

As if just getting up and starting your week wasn’t bad enough. As is fear of another depression wasn’t enough. This article covers a report issued by the journal Science last Friday.

“We estimate that one in four species is threatened with extinction and that the population of one in two is declining,” the researchers said in a report to be published Friday in the journal Science. The findings were being released Monday at the IUCN meeting in Barcelona, Spain.