I've been writing about climate change for years, but reporting this story really got me. It brought me to tears several times but also made me hopeful and filled me with awe. The Australian Alps are beautiful, and home to unique and threatened plants and animals... a 🧵 (1/12) They include the adorable mountain pygmy possum, which hibernates all winter under the snow, and was thought extinct until 1966 when some were caught raiding bacon in a ski lodge. There are only around 2500 of them & they're only found in this part of Australia above 1200m (2/12)

I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing most of the people in the world who study #nautiluses, here are some of the amazing things I learned about these beautiful creatures. A 🧵 1/11 #WorldOceansDay They haven't changed all that much in half a BILLION years. Their ancestors, the nautiloids, appeared 500 million years ago, and they evolved their distinctive coiled shape perhaps 100-200 million years ago. 2/