From crisis to climate change to the written word, the past week has been filled with important moments immortalized on Twitter. Here are Views’ tweets of the week:

For #EarthDay, read @ElizKolbert on Louisiana's land-loss crisis and the race to prevent the state’s coast from sinking into oblivion. https://t.co/JaN3raKhWT

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 23, 2019

Habitat loss and fragmentation are big threats to jaguars, but poaching for their teeth is a growing threat too. https://t.co/bsHblaiWKb #hostileplanet

— Rachael Bale (@Rachael_Bale) April 23, 2019

“There are no good kings. / Only beautiful palaces,” @KavehAkbar writes in his magical and matter-of-fact poem, “The Palace.” https://t.co/N0rc5xtmqV

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 22, 2019

Residents of Colombo, Sri Lanka once-besieged capital, had grown used to life without barricades and checkpoints. Now, after the bombing attacks on Sunday, that hard-won peace seems shattered. https://t.co/VI4wFPKbRk

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 24, 2019

Meet Virginia's Rodney Robinson, the 2019 National Teacher of the Year.

Moderately fun fact: Robinson works in Richmond, where the superintendent Jason Kamras, was the former National Teacher of the Year when he worked in D.C. https://t.co/sTvCBCDE17

— Perry Stein (@PerryStein) April 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/strongblacklead/status/1119254780977778688

"Resurrection is a new beginning": On Easter Sunday, Louisiana church prepares to rebuild https://t.co/idtgVf8JPm

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 22, 2019

In Opinion

Ferris Jabr writes, "We and all living creatures are not just inhabitants of Earth, we are Earth — an outgrowth of its physical structure and an engine of its global cycles" https://t.co/5w8AsV0M8t

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 21, 2019

Notre-Dame was once less valued than its sister churches due to its hodgepodge of architectural qualities. But this patchwork proved, in the end, central to its romance. https://t.co/cHHvIIXswW

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 18, 2019

https://twitter.com/TimAnderson7/status/1118686673230028802