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🌎 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

Plus: TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes, and more ...

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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)


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


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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