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…
„Hitze macht aggressiv, und Hitze gleichzeitig wegleugnen zu müssen, damit das eigene Weltbild nicht ins Wanken gerät, macht noch aggressiver.“ Hitzewelle: Wir leben im Zeitalter der aggressiver Ignoranz #Aggnoranz– @chris_Stoecker #klimawandel
Hört endlich auf, Spinnern wie der
"370,000 Acres of Rainforest and Granite Peaks Now Protected in French Guiana"
#Rainforests #FrenchGuiana
Temperature records tumble across Europe as heatwave moves east https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/28/temperature-records-tumble-across-europe-as-heatwave-moves-east
«Wenn KI-Services so super sind, warum werden sie uns dann so aggressiv aufgedrängt?
Ein Appell an die Hersteller, sämtliche KI-Dienste konsequent optional zu machen und sie von Haus aus zu deaktivieren. Echte Wahlfreiheit statt Zwangsbeglückung»
Gute Frage und um deren Macht und Profitgier der Konzerne kann es wohl kaum gehen oder…, oder…, oder nicht?!?? Wenn die von "Sicherheit" und "Produktivität" sprechen, dann wohl um ihre Eigene.
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Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $31M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjxak411qzx
"Italy’s Forest Cover is Larger Than Agriculture Land for the First Time Since the Middle Ages"
#Italy #Nature #Environment
Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/okta-buys-ai-securi…
homeowners across the U.S. are turning to an insurance that offers less coverage
A last-resort insurance policy with fewer homeowner protections and less government oversight is booming,
as traditional insurers continue to back away from areas of the country most vulnerable to extreme weather.
The policies are growing fastest in California, Florida, Texas and South Carolina
because increasingly intensifying weather and massive disasters are putting more insure…