Foreword Subsequent to the reporting period, geopolitical developments in the Middle East have led to an immediate and significant increase ...

Deal Challenges China’s Monopoly The global supply of rare earths is facing a massive structural transformation. Since ...

Abstract: In the production process, spare parts are assembled to become products. To improve product quality and reduce cost, it is required to determine whether to detect the quality of spare parts, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - While the world’s attention remains fixed on the oil market, a more subtle threat is emerging: the disruption of the global food supply. On March 7, 2026, the KSL Hengyang ...

The world is going to hell in a handbasket. And we’re all basket-weaving. Our nation is in midst of its worst constitutional ...

In the long arc of global history, moments of crisis often redefine the hierarchy of nations. Wars, economic disruptions, technological revolutions, ...

Fertilizer prices are spiking because of the Iran war, but technology for local production could insulate farmers from future ...

Farmers worldwide, including in the US, rely on inputs that move through the Strait of Hormuz and are now waylaid.

Farmers in ​the U.S. and Canada, already worried about another year of low profits or losses, now could have spring planting disrupted as they struggle to find fertilizer.

Another world crisis sparked by the war in Iran may also be in the offing. That’s because the region’s oil and gas production has made it one of the world’s leading exporters of nitrogen fertilizers, ...