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The Santa Barbara Foresters captured their 11th NBC World Series championship
with a 7-2 victory over the Alaska Goldpanners,
overcoming a late deficit in a matchup between two storied summer collegiate baseball programs.
The championship came 20 years after the Foresters won their first NBC World Series title.
Alaska entered the game as a six-time national champion.

Santa Barbara Foresters Rally Past Alaska Goldpanners to Win 11th NBC World Series Title
The victory secured the Foresters' first NBC World Series title since 2022.

UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/un-warns-of-narrowing-window-to-restore-worlds-forests

Forbes Union, which represents 90 editorial staff, ratifies its first, three-year contract after four years; it includes a $68.5K salary floor (The NewsGuild)
https://newsguild.org/forbes-union-wins-first-contract-four-years-after-unionizing/

Forbes Union wins first contract four years after unionizing | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

Pointless vengeance solving no problem:
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/tennessee-executes-first…

Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
Christa Pike’s planned execution is emblematic of America’s broken death penalty system

Pointless vengeance solving no problem:
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/tennessee-executes-first…

Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
Christa Pike’s planned execution is emblematic of America’s broken death penalty system

from my link log —
Celebrating 45 years of Kermit with the first new C-Kermit release in 15 years.
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-o…

Updating the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act: The “First State” Becomes the Latest to Get a Privacy Refresh
https://fpf.org/blog/updating-the-delaware-personal-data-privacy-act-the-first-state-becomes-the-lat…

Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation (Garrison Lovely/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/02/2026/how-emplo…

Exclusive: How employees forced OpenAI’s president to back down
A set of internal Slack messages details the politics at one of the world’s most powerful AI companies.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/despite-a-drop-in-deforestation-in-2025-forest-losses-pile-up-in-the-mekong/

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong
BANGKOK — Over the course of 2025, the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined 746,168 hectares (1.8 million acres) of tree cover, an area roughly equivalent to the size of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, according to Mongabay’s analysis*. Data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the […]

Coho salmon spend their first summer in freshwater before heading out to sea
and later returning to the streams to breed.
Two years after the first artificial beaver dams were built,
more salmon were returning to the Scott River than to any of the other rivers monitored in the study.
And while salmon numbers elsewhere remained low, returns to the Scott River stayed healthy,
even during severe drought.
Small, low-cost interventions yielded big, impressive …

People started building artificial beaver dams in California. Now something "mind blowing" is happening | Discover Wildlife
Following the construction of the dams, one river saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates soar from 8% to 60%.