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Euroopan metsistä on kadonnut biomassaa valtavia määriä 2018 lähtien.
Unprecedented biomass loss in Europe's forests since 2018 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-unprecedented-biomass-loss-europe-forests.html

Unprecedented biomass loss in Europe's forests since 2018
Using satellite data, researchers at TUM have identified an unprecedented loss of aboveground biomass in Europe's forests since 2018. Unlike previous studies that focused solely on changes in tree cover, this study provides the first Europe–wide assessment of changes in forest biomass.

Vast, climate-fueled wildfire forces evacuation of village in Eifel forest, Germany.
Largest wildfire ever in the state of North Rhine Westphalia.
https://www.dw.com/en/vast-german-wildfire-forces-evacuation-in-eifel-forest/live-78361311…

Vast German wildfire forces evacuation in Eifel forest
Hundreds of people had to leave a village near the Hürtgenwald as a wildfire approached. Firefighters say they're unlikely to be able to return today amid high temperatures, humidity and wind. DW has the latest.

I wrote a blog post about my first impressions using an Insta360 action camera...
#blogpost

Insta360 Camera (First Impressions)
A new camera, with 360 degrees...

California and Google will contribute $20M each over two years to the CA Civic Media Program, far below the $250M promised in 2024, with grants of up to $250K (Ethan Baron/Mercury News)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/14/new

Newsom revives local news fund at a fraction of the amount first promised
The funding follows a lengthy political battle to get social media giants Google and Meta to help support local newspapers, which have seen their advertising revenue shrink drastically as information moved online and the tech firms captured…

Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/408242/dragon

Dragonfly, FirstMark lead $38 million Series A for stablecoin startup Velocity with support from Coinbase, Ripple and more
The startup enables corporate users to use stablecoins while connecting to traditional banking rails and compliance systems.

Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/despite-oil-spills-in-nigerias-mangrove-forests-shell-continued-operations-documents-show/

Despite oil spills in Nigeria's mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show
Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed internal company communications reveal. The emails and memos, reviewed by Mongabay, show senior leadership knew of the poor conditions of the 97-kilometer (60-mile) Nembe Creek Trunk Line […]

Lust an der Furcht: Die #Psychologie hinter #HeavyMetal
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Not since the days of Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds have I felt the need to write a special report for Metacurity.
But the intense level of activity on Friday and over the weekend surrounding the White House crackdown on Anthropic and its impact on cybersecurity prompted me to write a special Metacurity report this morning. The report presents a timeline of how we have arrived at the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.
I hope you …

Special report: Anthropic and the first great AI cyber showdown — a timeline
Over the past few days, a dispute over AI safety guardrails escalated into a White House crackdown, a global sovereignty debate, and the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.

First Detection of Faraday Rotation in a #GammaRayBurst Afterglow - Low Polarization and High Rotation Measure in GRB 260310A Reveal Jet Magnetic Structure and Environment: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27480 -> Astronomers detect magnetic fingerprint of a cosmic explosion for the first time: https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/astronomers-detect-magnetic-fingerprint-of-a-cosmic-explosion-for-the-first-time/ & https://public.nrao.edu/news/gamma-ray-burst-vla/ - NSF VLA radio telescope reveals polarized light and a powerful magnetic environment of a gamma-ray burst afterglow, offering a new window into the extreme physics driving the most powerful explosions in the universe.

On the ghosts, and lessons, of Versailles.
Ukraine’s war is now longer than the first world war
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/06/11/ukraines-war-is-now-longer-than-the-first-world-war?giftId=YzE5ZmMzZTUtMjYyMS00NmU5LThiMjQtZGQ5NTQ3MDRiODQx&utm_campaign=gifted_article