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Only one person showed up to the pro-Trump protest outside Twitter’s San Francisco HQ - The Verge

Only one person showed up to the pro-Trump protest outside Twitter’s San Francisco HQ

That’s just not very many people.

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Borneo: a biologist is working, looking for snakes in a pond. Orangutan thinks the man is stuck, reaches out a hand to help him climb to safety. Nature's Teaches. Live Better #projectourworld https://www.instagram.com/p/CJg4_Y0n1MT/?igshid=ih8hm8k72gi0

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An extremely beautiful evening at the EEG annual Gala awards dinner last night. Celebrating the environment, the power of positivity and the road to a better future #movingforward

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CNN - Banksy has unveiled a mural in the liberated Ukrainian town of Borodianka.

The artwork shows a female gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble on the side of a damaged building #banksy #borodianka

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Expo 2020 Dubai live: Watch the opening ceremony

Follow up-to-date news, ticket prices and a guide to the pavilions here

Citizens of the globe unite and share real world solutions, EXPO 2020 connecting minds, uniting the world, celebrating deep and meaningful connections to create a better tomorrow #expodubai #Imaginebetter #movingforward

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Every time you do a lateral flow coronavirus test, you throw away around 10g of plastic. If every adult and secondary school student in the UK did the recommended two tests a week, it would produce more than 1,000 tonnes of rubbish every seven days. In less than a month this would fill an Olympic-size swimming pool.

Those of us who before the pandemic were involved in campaigns to cut our dependence on plastic, encouraging our communities to become “plastic free”, may feel like criticising such consumption. Should we stop these tests, knowing what we do about the plastic pollution crisis?

Absolutely not. They are at the forefront of our ability to control the virus and help our country return to a form of normality. So too are the countless tonnes of plastic used in the development, production, transportation and delivery of the vaccine, not to mention all the single-use medical consumables essential to help those unfortunate enough to end up in hospital.

The pandemic has highlighted the good and the bad of plastic use, showing more clearly than ever that plastic consumption is all about balance. Wasteful use of virgin plastic turns our oceans into plastic soups. This was part of the message many of us were trying to get out before the pandemic hit. Now that we’re being urged to “build back better” as we come out of lockdown, let’s seize the opportunity to change our thinking about plastic. Let’s appreciate what a wonderful resource it can be – and crucially let’s realise that, like all resources, it must be used wisely and not wasted.

Dr Christian Dunn is a senior lecturer in zoology at Bangor University and an environmental campaigner #projectourworld

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"But we humans, are made of other ingredients too, heavier elements in lesser quantities, folded into our flesh like gold or rubies hidden in the earth. We are 3.2% nitrogen; 1.5% calcium; 1% phosphorus. The total list also includes smaller amounts of sulfur, chlorine, magnesium, potassium, sodium, iron, cobalt, and more. These elements generally come to us via plants, who find them in the soil. In a very real sense, we are partly made of soil. When a woman is pregnant, soil-sourced nutrients pass through the umbilical cord to the baby. The baby’s blood turns red from the iron sourced from dark green leaves, in plants that plucked iron from the earth with questing roots. When my daughter was born and her little ruby fist closed around my finger, she used potassium to contract her finger muscles, potassium I passed on to her from sweet potatoes—unearthed and roasted—that had in turn absorbed the nutrient from the soil. We give our children these gifts of the dirt." #reimagine #movingforward #ourplanet #projectourworld Tending Soil by Emma Marris https://emergencemagazine.org/story/tending-soil/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CJii6oin8wp/?igshid=79r9qmu77mk6