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Private equity company acquires .org registry.
https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/13/breaking-private-equity-company-acquires-org-registry/
saved 2019-11-15

Breaking: Private Equity company acquires .Org registry - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. I thought this might happen. And now it has. Fresh off ICANN’s blunder letting Public Interest Registry set whatever price it wants for .org domain names, Internet Society (ISOC) has sold the .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) to private equity company Ethos […]

Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforce-acquires-contentful-…

Salesforce Acquires Contentful in Latest Move to Boost AI
Salesforce is acquiring Contentful, a provider of content management software for businesses, in the latest sign of its efforts to make its customer data more easily accessible to AI agents. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Salesforce paid between $1 billion and $1.5 billion for Contentful, which was founded in 2013, according to a person with direct knowledge of the figure. That’s a

https://www.sciencealert.com/hell-world-venus-may-have-once-had-oceans-across-90-of-its-hot-dry-surface

"370,000 Acres of Rainforest and Granite Peaks Now Protected in French Guiana"
#Rainforests #FrenchGuiana

370,000 Acres of Rainforest and Granite Peaks Now Protected in French Guiana
Called the Rocky Peaks of Armontabo, the reserve includes giant, isolated granite mountains surrounded by intact rainforest

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control.
Detailed satellite pictures with before/after slider. Even cemeteries were completely destroyed.
https://aje.news/0aqrsj

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control
Satellite images show transformation as Netanyahu orders military to occupy 70 percent of Gaza.

Is Europe best represented by the bold intellect of Marie Curie, the sprawling imagination of Miguel de Cervantes and the intense musical genius of Ludwig van Beethoven?
Or by a migrating stork and a bee-eater, swooping across borderless plains and enjoying freedom of movement across European countries?
The quest to settle this issue has engaged a surprising number of people across the continent,
after more than 6 million people voted in a survey within just a week of its …

Hitting the right note: apolitical animals or European heroes for new euro designs?
The EU is using a currency redesign as an opportunity to be less neutral and try some finely balanced identity-building

Feds to open hundreds of acres of Colorado wilderness to oil drilling - Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/31/800047530/environment/feds-to-open-hundreds-of-acres-of-colorado-wilderness-to-oil-drilling/

"A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads"
#Nigeria #Health #Healthcare

A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads
For many Nigerian women, access to sanitary pads remains a challenge. Even those who can obtain them, the prevalence of single-use menstrual products creates problems of its own. They contain plastics and chemicals and are not eco-friendly generating large amounts of waste. After learning that many traditional sanitary pads used contain up to 90% plastic […]

On Tuesday, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized a contested oil and gas leasing plan for its Bakersfield Field Office,
which manages public lands from Fresno to Ventura counties.
Under the approved plan, the BLM is offering up 850,000 acres across the Central Coast to future drilling and fracking. 
The BLM Bakersfield Field Office manages more than 1.2 million acres of public lands and federal mineral estate in Central California.
It supports about 3,5…

Feds Opens Up 850,000 Acres of Central Coast to Oil and Gas Drilling, Fracking
Public land now open to leasing includes a parcel next to Cate School in Carpinteria, a public park in Lompoc, and land bordering Lake Cachuma.

"Italy’s Forest Cover is Larger Than Agriculture Land for the First Time Since the Middle Ages"
#Italy #Nature #Environment

Italy's Forests Larger Than Agriculture Land for the First Time Since the Middle Ages
For locally endangered species like bears and wolves, more woods in mountain areas will go a long way toward supporting their populations.