Reuters: The world’s only catalogue of known plants and animals has listed 1.9 million species globally, a rise of 114,000 on a study done three years ago, Australian researchers said on Tuesday. The number of currently accepted and described species had jumped 6.3 percent from 1,786,000 last described in 2006, Australia’s Environment Minister Peter Garrett said, releasing the Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World report in Cairns. “The report shows that the science of …