Tag: fragile ecosystem

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 07:46 UTC

  Environment Day: UN “global call to action” to heal the Earth

  

  Amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth”, on World Environment Day, Jun 5.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  MSC Opera crashes into a wharf in Venice; heated row over the lagoon city and its fragile ecosystem

  

  A massive cruise ship lost control as it docked in Venice on Sunday crashing into the wharf and hitting a tourist boat after suffering an engine failure. Tourists on the harbor could be seen running away as the 13-deck MSC Opera scraped along the dockside, its engine blaring, before knocking into a tourist boat, amateur video footage posted on Twitter showed.