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Friday, October 2, 2026
WindDaily Sep 29, 2026 (AFP)

World's tallest wind turbine in Germany reaches full height

A wind turbine being built in eastern Germany reached its full height of 365 metres (1,197 feet) Tuesday, making it the world's tallest, according to the company that built it.

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WindDaily Jul 22, 2026 (AFP)
Metal mining's carbon footprint far larger than thought: study

From building wind turbines to reinforcing power grids for rising demand from electric cars, transitioning from fossil fuels to gr...

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...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
More on army, less on schools: What we know about Russia's 2027 budget

Russia plans to sharply increase defence spending, cut funding for education and raise taxes next year as costs mount in its war w...

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WindDaily SOLAR 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 as the KAUST campus to explore fully renewable con...

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,...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Lula, Bolsonaro trade blows in final scramble for votes in Brazil

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and rival Flavio Bolsonaro are pulling no punches in a last-ditch effort to win voters ahead of Sunday's election in Brazil, where the US suspen...

PolicyDaily MILITARY Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Battle in Yemen's Taiz kills scores of combatants: sources to AFP

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area near a waterway crucial to global energy flows, killing 80 combatants over the past day, sources on both sides told AFP ...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
US Supreme Court to hear high-stakes climate case

The US Supreme Court hears a climate case Monday that could upend dozens of lawsuits aimed at making polluters pay for their role in global warming and allegedly deceiving the publ...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
China widens military footprint with Laos air base

When China opened its first overseas air force base this week, a joint facility in isolated Laos, it was sendi...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Lebanon PM says scale of war recovery beyond state's capacity

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Friday that rebuilding regions destroyed in the latest Israel-Hezboll...

SinoDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Taiwan receives its first US-made F-16V fighter jets

Taiwan received its first F-16V fighter jets made by the United States on Friday, as the island democracy upgr...

DarwinDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
World powers gather in Pacific to chart climate battle

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see t...