🌎 The UN's climate report highlights the dangers of natural solutions

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The UN's climate report highlights the dangers of natural solutions. Planting carbon-sucking trees and crops can compete with food production, alter ecosystems, and place strains on biodiversity. (James Temple via MIT Technology Review)

Ketan Joshi @KetanJ0

The entire economy of offsetting and carbon credits already has a lot to answer for, but it gets name-checked specifically in the latest #IPCC report for the damage it regularly causes to ecosystems, biodiversity and food production technologyreview.com/2022/02/28/104… @jtemple

technologyreview.comThe UN’s climate report highlights the dangers of natural solutionsPlanting carbon-sucking trees and crops can compete with food production, alter ecosystems, and place strains on biodiversity.

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TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes. The app is now challenging YouTube with longer-form content. (James Vincent / The Verge)

Matt Navarra @MattNavarra

TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes The update is rolling out to all users globally

theverge.comTikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutesThe better to compete with YouTube

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Instagram is shutting down its standalone IGTV app. Instagram is ending support for its standalone app for IGTV, the company announced on Monday. (Aisha Malik via TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Instagram is shutting down its standalone IGTV app tcrn.ch/35CNCRT by @AiishaMalik1

tcrn.chInstagram is shutting down its standalone IGTV app – TechCrunchInstagram is ending support for its standalone app for IGTV, the company announced on Monday. Meta, Instagram’s parent company, confirmed to TechCrunch that the app will be removed from app stores in mid-March. In a blog post, the company explained that the change is part of its efforts to ma…

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Airbnb to offer free housing to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. Airbnb will offer free, temporary housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. The company will fund these stays with help from donations to the Airbnb.org Refugees and individual Airbnb hosts. (Sarah Alessandrini / CNBC)

Sarah Alessandrini @sarahalessan

$ABNB says it will offer short-term housing to up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, building on recent efforts to support refugees worldwide, for @CNBCtech

cnbc.comAirbnb to offer free housing to 100,000 Ukrainian refugeesAirbnb announced Monday it will offer free, short-term housing to up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.

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How Twitter's CMO Takes A People-First Approach To Leadership. I spoke to Twitter's CMO Leslie Berland about her unique leadership approach as well as Twitter’s efforts to combat harassment on the platform, how they’re elevating marginalized voices and of course, the enormous responsibility the platform undertakes during world events. (Amy Shoenthal / Forbes)

Viviana Wiewall @vivianawiewall

“During times like these, we feel the weight of our work. Across the company, we feel that responsibility, that care and that empathy every single day. We need to make sure the foundation of Twitter is running so the critical conversations can happen.”

forbes.comHow Twitter’s CMO Takes A People-First Approach To LeadershipI spoke to Twitter’s CMO Leslie Berland about her unique leadership approach as well as Twitter’s efforts to combat harassment on the platform, how they’re elevating marginalized voices and of course, the enormous responsibility the platform undertakes during world events.

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Advertisers are pulling ads from war coverage, and it's making it hard for publishers to monetize readership spikes. Publishers say advertisers are pulling ads to avoid their messages appearing near Russia-Ukraine war coverage. Meanwhile, ad buyers are advising advertising clients to steer clear of the news. (Lindsay Rittenhouse / Business Insider)

Lara O'Reilly @larakiara

Advertisers are trying to avoid appearing next to news articles related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, by adding related words like "Vladimir Putin," "Volodymyr Zelenskyy," "war," and "NATO" to their blocklists

businessinsider.comAdvertisers are pulling ads from war coverage, and it’s making it hard for publishers to monetize readership spikesMany advertisers don’t want to appear near Russia-Ukraine war coverage, which can deprive news publishers of a critical funding source.

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The List of Foreign Companies Pulling Out of Russia Keeps Growing. What was an enticing new market 30 years ago is now spurned. The invasion of Ukraine is causing a mass exodus of companies from Russia, reversing three decades of investment by Western and other foreign businesses there following the collapse of the… (Stephanie Baker / Bloomberg)

Craig Trudell @crtrud

The invasion of Ukraine has led to a mass exodus of companies from Russia, reversing three decades of investment by foreign businesses following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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