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Monday, September 28, 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 ...

BeyondLEO Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
CORRECTED: Press Release from Business Wire: SES

LUXEMBOURG, Sept 28, 2026 (BSW) - Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions to dat...

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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 ...

BeyondLEO MARS Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
SpaceX puts Starship megarocket in orbit for first time

SpaceX's Starship megarocket reached orbit for the first time and deployed 26 satellites before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on Monday, reaching a major milestone for the de...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Floods in India's Uttar Pradesh kill 81: new toll

The death toll from floods triggered by heavy rain in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh rose to 81, the government's disaster agency said.

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
The wildfires choking Indonesia, sparking regional haze

For weeks, Indonesia has been battling fires that have burned vast swathes of forest and peat ecosystems, causing toxic haze to blanket parts of the country, Malaysia and Singapore...

DisasterDay Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Tolls mount in Thailand, Myanmar floods

Heavy rains have killed eight people in Thailand since mid-September, the government said Monday as Bangkok ba...

DisasterDay Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
France puts out largest wildfire since 1949

A wildfire that scorched 42,000 hectares in southwest France has finally been declared extinguished, two month...

DisasterDay Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Eight dead in Thailand floods since mid-September

Eight people have died in flooding in Thailand since September 16, although none in the capital Bangkok which ...

PolicyDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
US says no China arms sale plans after envoy cites Trump offer

The United States said Monday that it has no plans to sell arms to China, after a US envoy said President Dona...