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"‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the scenes with Mongabay"
#Liberia #Deforestation #Trees

‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the scenes with Mongabay
Mongabay’s investigation into deforestation in Liberia started with a tip from a source last year. “There’s deforestation, and a migrant rights issue,” they said. Areas along the border with Côte d’Ivoire were losing vast swaths of rainforest to cacao farming. It was the beginning of a months-long journey that led us from the Liberian jungle […]

Source: Netflix raised $1B from a US high-grade bond sale, its first since a debut deal two years ago (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/netflix-returns-to-the-high-grade-bond-market-after-2024-debu…

Umstrittener Tankrabatt: Bund beschließt Milliarden-Hilfen trotz scharfer Kritik
Mit Steuersenkungen und einem Preisdeckel will die Politik die hohen Spritpreise dämpfen. Doch die Regierungspläne werfen Fragen auf und führen zu Vorwürfen.

Umstrittener Tankrabatt: Bund beschließt Milliarden-Hilfen trotz scharfer Kritik
Mit Steuersenkungen und einem Preisdeckel will die Politik die hohen Spritpreise dämpfen. Doch die Regierungspläne werfen Fragen auf und führen zu Vorwürfen.

Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/16/veridion-lands-20m-to-take-…

Veridion lands $20M to take business intelligence beyond static data
Business intelligence startup Veridion has raised $20 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered platform for providing continuously updated information on businesses worldwide. The round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with participation from existing investors Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, Gapminder, Day One Capital and Launchub.Founded in 2019, Veridion has developed what it describes as a live business graph, a digital representation of around 640 million businesses worldwid…

Banned chemicals continue to endanger environmental health in the Middle East and North Africa https://phys.org/news/2026-07-chemicals-endanger-environmental-health-middle.html

Banned chemicals continue to endanger environmental health in the Middle East and North Africa
In a study recently published in the journal Environmental Research, scientists from the University of Sharjah have drawn renewed attention to contamination by polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a class of man-made chemicals formerly used as flame retardants in a wide range of products, including electronics, household appliances, vehicles, furniture and upholstery.

Looks like #WealthInequality might be a problem?
‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
https://www.the…

‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing

Looks like #WealthInequality might be a problem?
‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
https://www.the…

‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Cote, Lauren A. MacArthur, Joel C. Roediger, John P. Blakeslee, Michele Cantiello, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Puragra Guhathakurta, Stephen Gwyn, Max M. Kurzner, Eric W. Peng, Matthew Santos, Eleanore B. Todd, Elisa Toloba, Pierre-Alain Duc, Patrick R. Durrell, Nicholas Fantin, Yuting Feng, Ariane Lancon, Sungsoon Lim, Chengze Liu, Deborah Lokhorst, Alessia Longobardi, Simona Mei, J. Christopher Mihos, Sanjaya Paudel, Thomas H. Puzia, Anand Raichoor, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Kaixiang Wang, Hongxin Zhang, Alessandro Boselli, Michael L. Balogh, Samuel Boissier, Eric Emsellem, J. J. Kavelaars, Alan W. McConnachie, Cameron R. Morgan, Chelsea Spengler, James E. Taylor, Matthew A. Taylor, Toby Brown, Sebastien Fabbro, Raphael Gavazzi, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Rashi Jain, Andres Jordan, Rory Smith, Solveig Thompson, Haruka Yoshino, Wim van Driel, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Tyrone E. Woods, Jade Yeung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18414 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18414
arXiv:2607.18414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a deep, high resolution imaging campaign that used the 1 deg$^2$ MegaCam instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to carry out a comprehensive optical survey of the Virgo cluster, from its core to its virial radius. The NGVS covers a contiguous area of 104 deg$^2$ (8.63 Mpc$^2$ at the 16.5 Mpc distance of Virgo) in the $u^*$-,$g$-,$i$-, and $z$-band, with additional limited coverage in $r$. In this paper, we present the final catalog of Virgo galaxies across the entire NGVS area. The catalog includes 3680 galaxies considered to be $bona~fide$ members of the cluster, spanning a factor of 2.5 million in luminosity, from $g = 8.42$ mag to $g = 24.41$ mag ($M_g = -22.67$ mag to $M_g = -6.68$ mag). With 2100 previously uncataloged galaxies, the NGVS catalog augments the number of known Virgo members by a factor 2.3. The catalog is complete down to $g = 18.6$ mag ($M_g=-12.5$ mag, corresponding to a stellar mass $M_* \sim 1.6\times10^7~M_{\odot}$ for an old stellar population) and 50% complete at $g = 22.0$ mag ($M_g=-9.1$ mag, $M_* \sim 6.2\times10^5~M_{\odot}$), three magnitudes deeper than the venerable Virgo Cluster Catalog (VCC), which for over 40 years has served as the reference standard for Virgo. Photometric and structural parameters are derived for all NGVS galaxies and presented in a series of tables, alongside nuclear and morphological classification, as well as stellar masses and, when available, radial velocities.
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Source: New York and Connecticut AGs have voiced concerns about the potential settlement agreement with Paramount and are pressing for greater concessions (Jon Passantino/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/ellison-s-settlement-squeeze

Ellison's Settlement Squeeze
Paramount may be closing in on a settlement with California AG Rob Bonta, but at least two states are pushing back, Status has learned, raising new questions about how far regulators are willing to bend in David Ellison’s pursuit of Warner Bros.

Rivian spinout Also, which is developing autonomous driving tech, raised a $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital, after announcing a $200M round in March 2026 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/rivian-spinout-also-raises-another-150…

Rivian spinout Also raises another $150 million | TechCrunch
The round, led by Prysm Capital, will fund the company's expansion beyond pedal-assist electric bikes and commercial cargo quads to autonomous delivery vehicles.