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Record copper prices would ordinarily signal a healthy industry. Instead, the metal’s midstream sector is under structural strain, exposing fault…

Tanker transits through the Strait of Hormuz have fallen by 90 percent since the conflict began, removing approximately 20 million…

Total global debt reached a record $348 trillion at the end of 2025, with nearly $29 trillion added in a…

In January 2026, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a public admission that would have been politically unthinkable a decade earlier:…

UK electricity prices remain among the highest in Europe, with domestic consumers paying more than in all but one EU country during the first half of 2025, according to the House of Commons Library.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Sheffield suggests that without rapid power sector decarbonization and tighter oversight of supply chains, the global push toward green hydrogen could fall short of its climate objectives.

A single metric is increasingly shaping investment calculus for battery energy storage systems across European power markets: the Top-Bottom spread,…

When the European Commission settled its emissions cartel case against BMW, Volkswagen, and DaimlerChrysler in 2021, the €875 million fine…

As China heads into its annual Two Sessions in early March, the gap between climate ambition and implementation capacity is becoming a central policy question.

Europe’s installed battery capacity surpassed 17 gigawatts in 2025 after adding more than 7 gigawatts in just two years, yet deployment remains uneven across the continent.