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Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project
50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex
and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows
— every female laid eggs within a month,
and 29 chicks fledged the first summer,
because any predator stands out on open ground under panels

Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project 50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows — every female laid eggs within a month, and 29 chicks fledged the first summer, because open ground under panels hides no predator from an owl
A solar farm designed to fight climate change became an unexpected refuge for an endangered owl when scientists discovered that panels cast the perfect shadow for ground-nesting predators to hunt.

POL-EL: Scheune niedergebrannt Hilkenbrook (ots) - Am Samstagmorgen mussten Einsatzkräfte der Polizei und des THW sowie der Feuerwehren aus Hilkebrook und Esterwegen zu einem Brand an der Hauptstraße ausrücken. Durch Funkenflug bei Arbeiten mit einer Bohrmaschine, hatte sich ... https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/…

From The Tyee's Daily Catch
“We live in on a rural property with a lot of mostly mature trees. While I agree with some of the FireSmart recommendations, I’m not going to cut down all these trees in order to have a slightly better chance of saving the house and any outbuildings in case of a forest fire. If I wanted to live on a bald prairie, I’d move to Alberta or Saskatchewan (shudder).... All of us reading The Tyee know exactly what’s triggering all these wildfires, torrential rai…

@… I am personally able to set that aside and enjoy the show, but I do agree that it’s an annoying property of shows that set themselves up to have a reveal eventually.
I remember watching How I Met Your Mother in my youth, and the whole thing hinges on eventually revealing who “your mother” is… and then it’s just some random character they insert in the last …

US attorney general Todd Blancheon Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump.
“No, I’m not going to pledge that,” he said when asked about the topic by NBC’s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. “And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”
Blanche also claimed Trump would never ask him to do something that crosses an ethical or legal line
– after the president dismissed his…

Todd Blanche declines to pledge independence from White House
US attorney general says no one in his role ‘should ever’ make this vow amid concern over Trump steering DoJ

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Sources: Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-acquire-ai-startup-listen-labs-2026-9…

Salesforce has been in talks to buy AI startup Listen Labs
Salesforce has had talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that provides marketing research to brands, for around $2 billion.

TL;DR: Die Abhängigkeit von ausländischen Importen und die Klimakrise treiben die Ölpreise.
Höchste Zeit was dagegen zu tun!
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/diesel-oelpreis-spritpreise-heizoel-100.html

Warum Diesel trotz gesunkener Ölpreise so teuer bleibt
Der Ölpreis ist seit seinem Kriegshoch deutlich gefallen. Doch an der Tankstelle kommt davon kaum etwas an - vor allem Diesel bleibt teuer. Was hinter der ungewöhnlichen Preisentwicklung steckt.

POL-EL: Brand in Waldstück Werlte (ots) - Am späten Freitagabend mussten etwa 50 Feuerwehrkräfte zu einem beginnenden Waldbrand an der Straße Drift ausrücken. Der etwa 50 x 20 Meter große Forstbereich war gegen 20 Uhr aus ungeklärter Ursache in Brand geraten. Die ... https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/1

Nielsen agrees to acquire DoubleVerify and take it private in an all-cash deal with an enterprise value of around $2.15B, expected to close by Q1 2027 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nielsen-acquire-doubleverify-d…

Nielsen to Acquire DoubleVerify in Bid to Augment Digital Measurement
Nielsen to Acquire DoubleVerify in Bid to Augment Digital Measurement