You work for an environmental group that is concerned about global warming, and you have read an article in the scientific journal Nature that states that because of the gradual increase in the world's temperature, climate change will threaten 37 percent of all plant and animal species by 2050—1.25 million species, including 87 percent of the plant species in the Amazon rainforest.

Write the first few paragraphs of a news release your organization will distribute to major news organizations.