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Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area #Ghana

Illegal mining threatens Ghana's first marine protected area
Ghana’s land ministry is failing to act against illegal gold mining in the Greater Cape Three Points Forest Reserve, say conservationists. Their call comes as pollution threatens vulnerable and endangered species in both the protected forest and the adjacent waters of a newly declared marine protected area. Mining activity is causing toxic chemicals, including mercury, […]

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/prevalent-a…

Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE
Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE

China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out https://insidebci.com/market/2026-08-16-picc-property-casualty-china-first-commercial-insurance-invasive-bci-surgery-zhejiang/

China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out
State-owned PICC Property and Casualty signed China's first commercial insurance policy covering invasive brain-computer interface surgery on Wednesday 12 August 2026. Counterparty is the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Zhejiang Provincial Government Office released a same-day industry-policy package. Hong Kong and Shenzhen BCI-tagged stocks rallied.

On The Hunt For Earth’s First Complex Life - Universe Today #biology

"Rescued Orangutans Released Into Isolated Forest Are Now Raising Babies, Creating New Wild Population"
#Orangutans #Animals

Rescued Orangutans Released Into Isolated Forest Are Now Raising Babies, Creating New Wild Population
15 years ago, conservationists began releasing rescued orangutans into a protected Sumatran forest—and today they are having babies.

The worst timeline. Fracking in Wayne National Forest.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2026/09/18/wayne-national-forest-plots-leased-to-fracking-industry-for-11-million/91823667007/

Agent's Take: Why early extensions for NFL first-round picks are becoming the new normal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-nfl-first-round-pick-contract-extensio…

Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech startup Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional capital raise, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/sach

Sachin Bansal's fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment | TechCrunch
The investment comes amid Navi plans to go public.

Putting out wildfires: How peat restoration has reduced fire risk in Indonesia's tropical forests https://phys.org/news/2026-08-wildfires-peat-indonesia-tropical-forests.html

Putting out wildfires: How peat restoration has reduced fire risk in Indonesia's tropical forests
Peatland fires in Indonesia pose a major threat to habitats, wildlife and people. That risk is exacerbated by the country's periodic El Niño warming phases, which bring prolonged drought.

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/08/forest-fires-likely-to-continue-to-burn-twice-as-much-without-serious…

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change
Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch, previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that’s frequently cited in Mongabay reporting. She joins this week’s podcast to detail GNW’s updated 25-year analysis of global forest fire trends. The picture is stark: Forest fires burn twice as much forest today as […]