A quarter of freshwater fish at risk of extinction, assessment reveals

A new assessment has found that 25 percent of freshwater fish are at risk for extinction due to climate change and pollution. The latest update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species was published Monday and included the first-ever global assessment of freshwater fish. It found that 3,086 out of…

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