The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published its criteria for a new “Red List” of endangered ecosystems today in the journal PLOS ONE. The list measures an ecosystem’s risk of collapse, taking inspiration from the group’s influential Red List of Endangered Species, which created internationally accepted criteria for assessing extinction risk. Lead study author David Keith, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australi”The Red Lists for species and ecosystems will together provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the environment and its biodiversity than either can on its own”.