Photo: A firefighter stands at a burning house hit by the Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, on the Orthodox Christmas Eve Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine months in a row, the U.N. Food and
The United States is leveraging the public and private sectors to make a critical multi-billion dollar investment in electric vehicles. But the push to cut back carbon emissions by putting more EVs on the road is being hampered by little-known companies called patent trolls that are relentlessly working to extort money from tech companies through
Photo: An Ukrainian firefighter works near a destroyed building on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine Russia pummeled the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, in an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and Western weapons shipments as Ukraine’s foreign minister appeared to suggest the country could expand its war aims. With the war
The move to renewable energy sources and electrified transportation constitutes a megatrend, a global seismic shift in energy production, storage and consumption. But there are dark clouds forming, clouds reminiscent of another time. The United States has handed over the supply chain for this future to offshore suppliers of the critical materials used in the
BMW has halted production at two German factories. Mercedes is slowing work at its assembly plants. Volkswagen, warning of production stoppages, is looking for alternative sources for parts. For more than a year, the global auto industry has struggled with a disastrous shortage of computer chips and other vital parts that has shrunk production, slowed
Hopefully, we aren’t actually what we eat. ozgurdonmaz/iStock via Getty Images Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury The price of oil has been spiking in recent weeks in response to concerns that the war in Ukraine will significantly reduce supply. But what happens in oil markets never stays in oil markets. The price of U.S. crude
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