Reuters Science News Summary

​They looked ⁠at more than 67,000 species, meaning about 18% of the world's ⁠known vascular plants. China sends astronaut on year-long space mission as it ​eyes 2030 moon landing China sent three astronauts to its ⁠space station on Sunday, one of whom will stay for a year, ⁠a ​record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing works towards ⁠its ambition of a crewed moon landing by 2030.

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Climate ​change threatens global ‌plant species ​as habitats shrink

Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not ‌survive by century's end as climate change becomes an increasingly important driver of species loss, according to scientists, reshaping and often ‌shrinking suitable habitats that the plants need to survive. Researchers modelled ‌future ranges for numerous species of vascular plants, a category that accounts for almost all the world's plants - those with water- and ⁠nutrient-carrying tissues. ​They looked ⁠at more than 67,000 species, meaning about 18% of the world's ⁠known vascular plants.

China sends astronaut on year-long space mission as it ​eyes 2030 moon landing

China sent three astronauts to its ⁠space station on Sunday, one of whom will stay for a year, ⁠a ​record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing works towards ⁠its ambition of a crewed moon landing by 2030. The Shenzhou-23 ⁠vessel launched ⁠at 11:08 p.m. (1508 GMT) using the Long March-2F Y23 carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center ‌in ‌northwest China, with three Chinese astronauts ​on board.