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September 2026

Every tda-dispatch published in September 2026. 5 articles · Back to full archive

Grid operators in the Netherlands can now slow or stop North Sea wind turbines for 4 hours when mass bird migration is forecast; on May 13, 2023, turbines at Borssele and a wind farm near Egmond aan Zee were shut down for four hours in an international first.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026

In 1963, Britain proposed closing 5,000 route miles of railway; by the late 2010s, about 1,200 miles of the National Cycle Network used old railway track beds, while more than 1,000 cast-iron Millennium Mileposts installed in 2000 marked routes across the network.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 3, 2026

Saudi Arabia contains some of the world’s largest sand deserts yet imports sand from Australia — much of the windblown sand beneath its feet is too fine, smooth and rounded for conventional concrete, making it the wrong kind of sand for the cities rising above it

By Daniel Moran · Sep 3, 2026

Speeding accounts for roughly one in five severe crashes in Philadelphia, and 80% of the city's fatal or serious collisions happen on a set of corridors planners call the High Injury Network — the streets now getting speed cushions and cameras first.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 2, 2026

The Zeckendorf brothers bought the Mayflower Hotel for around $400 million in 2004 and cleared its rent-controlled tenants one by one with buyouts starting at $650,000, until a single 350-square-foot apartment held out and ultimately cost them $17 million to empty.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026