Jane Goodall to celebrate 90th birthday with talks on urgency of environmental action

British primatologist-turned-conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall will mark her 90th birthday next month with a series of talks.

Her greatest wish is for people to start thinking more about the environment, she said in an interview last week. But in the meantime, she says she would like the gift of more years "to continue getting the message out."

"We've got a window of time, I believe, to start slowing down climate change, loss of biodiversity, to alleviate poverty, to bring to an end the terrible industrial farming...