Chinese fast fashion e-tailer Shein had achieved status as a fashion juggernaut with $10 billion in global sales in 2020, with the U.S. accounting for nearly 30%. Shein’s rise has come with a heavy carbon footprint, which the company wants to cut by 25% by 2030.

On March 25, Anitta became the first Brazilian musical artist to hit number one on Spotify’s daily Top 50 Global playlist. The “Envolver” charting record was in large part due to efforts by her fans, who coordinated across Twitter to hack Spotify’s system by creating multiple playlists with her song and switching to a new Spotify account after every 20 streams.

This “Fifty Shades of Gray” knockoff has spent the past two weeks as one of the most-watched titles on Netflix. But critics are united on its lack of appeal. Cosmopolitan’s reviewer labelled it “the worst thing I’ve ever seen.”

On October 17, the semiannual bird-watching holiday known as “the Global Big Day,” over 32,000 people from 168 countries contributed bird sightings to the app, which collects crowdsourced observations in one of the world’s largest collaborative biodiversity projects. The first sighting was a Pacific golden plover in Vanuatu, followed by a common ostrich in Tanzania. In Colombia, the country with the third highest number of birders using the app, one family reported nearly 100 species.