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Hold on! Beautiful boy. The answer is blowing in the wind #koalas for your viewing pleasure #trees #NatureLover

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@Mr_Husky1 My mother told me of this story, captivating. Also made into a movie: Miracles Still Happen share.google/pfwYUmoD06YSQv…

In 1971, a plane disintegrated mid-air above the Amazon rainforest. Almost everyone died. A 17-year-old girl fell alone into the jungle—and lived. On Christmas Eve, high above the Amazon, the sky turned violent. Lightning cracked open the clouds. The aircraft shook like it was made of paper. Passengers screamed. Luggage ripped free. And then—without warning—the plane came apart. Not crashed. Not landed. Disintegrated. Juliane Koepcke was still strapped to her seat when she was thrown into the sky. She fell nearly 10,000 feet, spinning through storm clouds, trees rushing up to meet her. The seat—still attached—acted like a crude parachute, slowing her descent just enough to spare her life. When she woke up, the jungle was silent. No voices. No wreckage nearby. Just the hum of insects and the thick, green wall of the Amazon rainforest. She was 17 years old. Juliane had a broken collarbone. Deep cuts. A concussion so severe she could barely see out of one eye. Her glasses were gone. One shoe was missing. Maggots would soon infest an open wound on her arm. But the worst injury wasn’t physical. It was being alone. Her mother—who had been sitting just rows away—was gone. Everyone else was gone. And the rainforest doesn’t care how old you are. Most people would panic. Most people would freeze. Most people would die. But Juliane remembered something her parents—both scientists—had taught her. “Follow water. Water leads to people.” So she began to walk. For 11 days, she moved through one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth. She waded through rivers not knowing what lurked beneath the surface. She slept on the ground, exposed to insects, snakes, and predators. She ate almost nothing—just a few candies she’d found in the wreckage. Every step hurt. Every night was terrifying. Every morning she woke up surprised she was still alive. At one point, she found the bodies of fellow passengers. She didn’t stop. She couldn’t. Because stopping meant dying. On the tenth day, weak and feverish, Juliane followed a stream deeper into the forest. The water carried her forward when her legs no longer could. Then she saw it. A small hut. An outboard motor. Signs of people. She collapsed. When local loggers returned days later, they found a ghost of a girl—sunken eyes, infected wounds, barely conscious—but alive. They carried her to help. Juliane Koepcke was the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508. Doctors would later say her survival bordered on impossible. But “impossible” didn’t account for: A calm mind under terror Knowledge passed down quietly by parents The stubborn human instinct to keep moving forward Juliane didn’t chase fame. She went back to school. She became a biologist. She returned to the rainforest—not as a victim, but as a scientist. Years later, she would say something simple: “I survived because I didn’t give up—and because I followed the river.” Most people think survival is about strength. It isn’t. It’s about direction. When life explodes without warning… When everything familiar disappears… When you’re hurt, scared, and alone… You don’t need to see the whole path. You just need to take the next step. And keep moving.

@CrazyVibes_1 Oh wow! These will sell like hotcakes o Etsy, very talented young lady!

My daughter made these and asked me if anyone besides me would think they're cute. She's eleven and hasn't had a single friend invite her to anything in over a year. The girls at school decided she was "weird" last winter and just stopped talking to her completely, like she doesn't exist. She eats lunch alone in the bathroom and comes home asking me what's wrong with her, why nobody likes her, why everything she does is wrong. She made these little characters from old baseball bats she found in the garage, spent hours painting them while I pretended not to hear her crying. When she finished, she lined them up and said "They look stupid, don't they?" I told her they were adorable and she just looked at me with this completely broken expression and said, "You're my mom. You have to say that. But nobody at school would ever think something I made was good." I need you all to tell her these are amazing because she won't believe me. She needs to hear from people who aren't obligated to love her that she's talented, that those girls are wrong about her, that being creative and different isn't something to be ashamed of. She's talking about not going back to school after Christmas break, and I'm terrified I'm losing her to this loneliness. I showed her handmade crafts online last week, told her that real people buy and sell creative things like this all the time, that there's a whole community of makers who celebrate each other instead of tearing each other down. She didn't believe me. So please, if you think these snowman and Santa and reindeer are cute, tell her. She checks my phone when I'm not looking, and I know she'll see your comments. Maybe if enough strangers tell her the truth, she'll stop believing what those cruel girls have convinced her is true about herself. Credit ~ marta hanger

Let's try to make a difference 🐶! ‘Please don’t breed or buy whilst shelter dogs die.’ Tag a shelter in the comments and we will share their page. Credit: @NiallHarbison & @WeAreHappyDoggo. #RescueDogs #Dogs #DogsOfTwitter #AdoptDontShop 🐾

Here’s what happened at The Ocean Cleanup in November: 💠 This year, we’ve been collecting an average of 53 kilos of trash every minute. 💠 We just finished recycling our last plastic batch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Now, we have over 118,000 kg of plastic granulate ready for new products. 💠 We introduced our new 4-quadrant strategy: cleaning up the garbage patches, stopping plastic in rivers, conducting coastal sweeps, and tackling lost fishing gear at sea. 💠 After Hurricane Melissa, all nine Interceptors made it through — with only a few needing repairs. 💠 Our team published new research on the role of Citizen Scientists in gathering data on plastic pollution in remote oceanic regions. 💠 With partners in Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, and Panama, we continue to engage local communities in coastal sweeps of beaches and mangroves. 💠 We have completed the analysis of 55,000 kg of ocean plastic. Each item was inspected for clues about its origin, age, and evidence of bite marks; the research will be published next year.

This ginkgo tree, in the village of Bangye-ri in South Korea, is thought to be at least 800 years old

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@SandyHorne61 Well done Sandy!! Woot!

I almost forgot to have a little brag 🙂 This photo of mine (entitled 'Risky business') achieved a 'Commended' award in the 2025 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards in the Human Impact category.

@MarkRDuckett He's very social!

Baldrick under my chair

A long overdue #treeride.

Trees at night for #thicktrunktuesday

@sciencegirl Trees are life

🦜Watch and listen as #SwiftParrots call from a forest that Forestry Tasmania still plans to log — even after we’ve recorded and reported this critically endangered species nesting here. End native forest logging!

RT if you agree…. There is NO excuse for #AnimalAbuse EVER!! 🚫

Watch how a few simple changes can help families and young people live with dignity - thanks to new ANU research for the Society. Discover how a fairer tax system means more support for those doing it tough, without costing the nation more. Like, share, and follow to help spread this important message. Every action brings us closer to a future where everyone has a chance to live with dignity and hope. vinnies.org.au/national-counc…

The lions who wanted to listen to music 📹plumesofficiel

Seen on FB just now. This is outrageous! I wonder if @PMalinauskasMP would care to comment?

@BobBrownFndn Ruining a beautiful place. #toxicsalmon

In what was clearly a shortsighted move by the federal government of Australia, the industrial salmon farms of Tasmania were given emergency approval to use a controversial antibiotic called Florfenicol. surfer.com/news/sketchy-d… #politas

@MarkRDuckett Nice talons!

Always trying to get in any way possible