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Saturday, September 26, 2026
WindDaily Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)

Windmills of change: Dutch raise mill in rare operation

The Waardenburg windmill -- a rare hexagonal mill still grinding grain today -- has graced the banks of the Waal on the Rhine delta for 250 years and is a listed monument in the Netherlands. But a nearby dyke has been ra...

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WindDaily Jul 17, 2026 (AFP)
From coal pits to wind turbines, Polish miners rise to the occasion

From the top of a wind turbine nearly 100 metres above the ground, Grzegorz Witek, a coal miner, gazes at the horizon.

WindDaily May 01, 2026 (SPX)
Princeton Study Maps Raw Material Risks as Drone and Robot Output Scales Toward Millions of Units

Researchers estimate commercial drone production could scale by up to 10 times by the late 2030s, while output of humanoid and qua...

WindDaily Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Desert Renewable Grids Built To Survive Extreme Heat And Calm

Growing interest in transitioning from fossil-fueled electricity to locally powered renewable grids has prompted communities such ...

DarwinDaily Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Drought declared in three-quarters of India's richest state

Drought has hit three-quarters of India's richest state of Maharashtra, the government said on Saturday, after prolonged low rainf...

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WindDaily WINDDAILY Apr 20, 2026 (AFP)
UK to accelerate clean energy drive amid Mideast war

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will use a speech later in the day to expand on the proposed measures, which include "driving forward plans to massively expand renewables" on governme...

WindDaily SOLAR Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
Molecular Lock Design Pushes Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 Percent

To achieve record efficiencies, scientists typically use self-assembled monolayers, or SAMs, just one molecule thick to extract positive charges from the perovskite layer. However,...

WindDaily TECH SPACE Apr 03, 2026 (AFP)
'Metals of the future': copper and silver flow beneath Poland's surface

Whitish ore, rich in copper and silver, is extracted from the country's depths and exported around the world to fuel technological and energy transitions. "These are the metals of ...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Indonesia fires threatens critically-endangered orangutan: IUCN

Wildfires that tore through Indonesian Borneo's vast tropical forests have piled pressure on critically endangered Bornean orangutans, the International Union for Conservation of N...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
El Nino rewrites the menu in the world's top restaurants

A record-breaking El Nino will likely force the world's top chefs to rethink their menus ahead of droughts, floods and heatwaves upending global food systems.

OilGasDaily MILITARY Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
At UN, Saudi FM warns world failing to protect Gulf shipping

Saudi Arabia warned UN members Saturday that attempts to block Middle East waterways are a threat to global energy security and demanded the international community do more to defe...

PolicyDaily Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Iran president says supreme leader backs new plan to reopen Hormuz

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran's new plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz was coordi...

PolicyDaily Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Saudi coalition says intercepted Houthi drones headed for Riyadh

The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthis said on Saturday that its forces intercepted two drones fired...

DarwinDaily Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Bacteria suspected in deaths of hundreds of baby whales off Argentina

A bacterial infection is suspected of killing hundreds of baby whales in the southern Argentine region of Pata...

DarwinDaily Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Hurricane Polo triggers huge waves in coastal Mexican city

Mexican authorities announced the deployment of nearly 20,000 security forces in the Pacific coast states, as ...