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Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said. It's all because of humans, but it's not too late to fix the problem, according to the United Nations' first comprehensive report on biodiversity. "We have reconfigured dramatically life on the planet," report co-chairman Mr Eduardo Brondizio of Indiana University said at a news conference. Species loss is accelerating to a rate tens or hundreds of times faster than in the past, the report said. More than half a million species on land "have insufficient habitat for long-term survival" and will probably go extinct, many within decades, unless their habitats are restored. The oceans are not any better off.