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4 Oct, 5 tweets, 5 min read
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1. I love this one. It is so cute 🐘 😊

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#animals #elephants #cute #video

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2. If you love animals, you will love to read The Planet newsletter.

Subscribe to The Planet and start your day with stories about the beauty of #nature, #wildlife, or threats like #climate change.

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#environment
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3. Not my kind of pet, but they all seem to be happy in this video. 🦎

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#lizard #pets #animals #nature
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4. And since this thread is more about pets than wildlife (see my other recent threads), I have one for the dog lovers:

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#dogs #pets #fun
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5. If you got this far, I hope you will subscribe to The Planet newsletter.

Just give it a try, and know you can unsubscribe with just one click if you don’t want to read it anymore (which not many do).

Thank you for your support. 😊

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2 Nov
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1. For all readers who don't warm to the idea of future palm-fringed beaches in the Arctic, I wrote an explainer about COP26, climate change, and why we need to do more.

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2/12. Current policies set us on track to about 2.7Β°C or 2.9Β°C of warming by the end of this century, a disastrous cause to a world where you don't want your children to live.

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#COP26Glasgow #news #environment

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3/12. This graph from Our World in Data shows the global average temperature relative to the average of the period between 1961 and 1990.

These changes are almost all caused by human behavior, especially the burning of fossil fuels and land (ab)use.

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31 Oct
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1. Starting COP26 on Halloween, a festival for the dead, doesn't give much hope.

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🧡 The start of a thread on #history, #Halloween, #leadership, #nature, #climate, and #COP26 Image
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2. Traditions can alienate you if you don't feel part of it. So in my efforts to blend in with the Canadians, I searched the internet to explain #Halloween and found that we have to go back into history as I so often do in The Planet newsletter.

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3. There was not much of #Halloween celebration in colonial New England, where rigid Protestant beliefs prevented frivolously celebrating, especially of traditions with some doubtful pre-Christian fingerprints all over it.

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23 Oct
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1. I’m fascinated by the beauty of nature and enjoy learning more every day. Look for instance at these mushrooms realising millions of microscopic spores to propagate.

🧡 A thread about the beauty of planet earth, our only home.

#nature #science
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2. That’s right, it’s our only home. That means we have to be extra careful, we don’t have a spare.

When it heats up, or loses it’s complex ecosystems, we will all be in trouble.

NASA took this photo of the dark side of the moon from 1 million miles away.

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#climate
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3. If you care about the beauty of nature and follow issues like climate change, read The Planet.

Subscribe, and start your day with this newsletter, it really needs your support. πŸ™

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21 Oct
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1. Brazil and Argentina lobby against evidence in the draft scientific UN/IPCC report on the need to reduce meat consumption to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

@BBCNews reports this, based on leaked documents obtained by @UE (follow them).

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#vegetarian #vegan #COP26
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2. The leaked documents also reveal how Australia pushed back against the need to phase out coal power plants to tackle climate change.

That is like removing references to quit smoking in a scientific report on preventing lung cancer.

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#Australia #IPCC #climate #COP26 #UN
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3. Australia is not alone: it is also revealed how OPEC and Saudi Arabia are lobbying the UN's climate change experts to delete the finding that the world needs to rapidly phase out fossil fuels.

And #COP26 will start in only ten days...

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19 Oct
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1/… Sorry for disturbing you buddy! We’ll leave you alone now! πŸ˜‚

A thread about spiders. 🧡

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#wildlife #spider #nature #AustraliaΒ  #animals MT @jodirowley
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2. When male jumping spiders flirt with females, they risk losing their lives.

This is a mating dance, but she is not interested and he escapes with his life, because often females will eat their lover after sex.

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πŸ“Ή: EstradaWildPhotography

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3. Read about nature in The Planet newsletter.

Subscribe to The Planet and start your day with stories about the beauty of nature, or threats like climate change.

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17 Oct
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1. Suppose an alien spaceship will land on earth next week.

After many light-years of travel through space, some friendly little green creatures decide to get out and stretch their legs on our planet.

What would they report home?

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2. I guess their first description would be ecstatic.

Hidden in the fast, cold, and dark universe, they discovered a blue planet that brims with an incredible diversity of life, aided by ideal living conditions.

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#nature #life
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3. But:

Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has lost 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.

Of all the mammals on earth, 96% are livestock and humans, while only 4% are wild mammals.

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#wildlife #biodiversity #climatecrisis
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