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The knighted BBC broadcaster has been the tranquil voice of nature documentary narration since the beginning of, well, nature documentaries! Attenborough set off to explore the globe in his twenties and has travelled over millions of miles to educate and present us the wonders of the natural world ever since. Attenborough is now 94, and throughout his long life, has watched the natural world wither before his eyes.  An ice-free Arctic, a global food production crisis, millions of people rendered homeless. Sir David Attenborough gives his witness statement and future predictions of Life On Our Planet and describes it as "a series of one-way doors bringing irreversible change." The moving documentary issues a stark warning for global extinction, not only for current wildlife but potentially for humans too. The 'documentary of the year' marks each stage of Attenborough’s career with the ever-declining state of the natural world, and the percentage of wildlife remaining. ...

Ahead of the current NYC climate week, advocates in the Big Apple have unveiled an eye opening ‘Climate Clock’ providing a strong statement to the government. “The clock is a way to speak science to power,” project co-founder Andrew Boyd said in a statement. The clock takes the place of the famous ‘Metronome’ digital time display. Instead of showing the time, the Climate Clock predicts the time humans have left on the planet before an impending environmental disaster; currently at 7 years, 99 days and 23 hours. The Clock is a timer, counting down how long it will take at current rates of emissions to burn through our “carbon budget” — the amount of CO2 that can still be released into the atmosphere while limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This is our deadline, the time we have left to take decisive action to keep warming under the 1.5°C threshold. Simply put, energy from renewable sources must be used to lower the carbon count in the air and extend the time o...