Five things the world is saying about ecosystem restoration
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – set to launch during World Environment Day on 5 June – aims to rally citizens, governments and corporations around one common goal: preventing, halting and reversing the destruction of natural spaces.
The drive comes as experts warn that ecosystems around the world are facing collapse. The planet is losing 4.7 million hectares of forests every year – an area larger than Denmark – and over the past century, half of the globe’s wetlands have been drained.
“The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’s mission is as important as it is daunting,” says Tim Christophersen, coordinator of the UN Decade with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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| 10 March 2021
Barely weeks after revealing that its direct-to-consumer service had racked up 94.9 million subscribers between 12 November 2019 and 2 January 2021, the Walt Disney Company has confirmed that Disney+ now has gone past the three-figure million-mark.
Speaking at the company’s virtual Annual Meeting of Shareholders, chief executive officer Bob Chapek described Disney+ as an “enormous success” and confirmed that Disney+ had now attracted more than 100 million subscribers and that such a performance was inspiring Disney to be more ambitious and to significantly increase its investment in the development of high-quality content.
Specifically, Chapek revealed the firm has now set a target of over 10 new titles per year, and this includes Disney Animation, Disney Live Action, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. In addition, content from the ESPN+ sports direct-to-consumer package is now avaiable on the Hulu OTT platform. “Our direct-to-consu
Sideswipe: March 11: Prescient words on pandemic
10 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
3 minutes to read Ten years ago by the New York Times published comments by Dr Abigail Zuger criticising certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh s film about a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. The movie s screenwriter, Scott Burns, responded . We took great care to make sure our fictional story was based on real science. The world had seen more than three dozen new pandemic-ready viruses in the last three decades. The scientists who consulted on the film, along with most of their colleagues in epidemiology and virology, believe it is only a matter of time coupled with lack of preparation before the world faces a real-life pandemic like the make-believe one in the film. Dr Zuger s point that the Contagion virus or MEV-1 does not precisely replicate Nipah encephalitis, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic or HIV/AIDS is correct. She is also right about the tr