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Diamond market crash is Africa’s opportunity, not its crisis – M'zée Fula Ngenge
Global natural diamond supply is forecast to fall below 95 million carats this year, the lowest since 1987. For Dr. M'zée Fula Ngenge, chairperson of the African Diamond Council (ADC), this is not a death knell but a clarion call. In an exclusive...
12 october 2026
Tracr passes 5 million rough diamonds milestone as De Beers expands provenance push
De Beers Group's blockchain-enabled traceability platform Tracr reached a significant milestone in 2025, with more than 5 million rough diamonds individually scanned and registered, up from 2.8 million cumulative registrations reported in 2024. The...
28 september 2026
South African diamonds head to Hong Kong: SDT partners with BRINKS for JGW 2026
South Africa’s State Diamond Trader (SDT) has confirmed the country's participation in Jewellery & Gem World Hong Kong (JGW) 2026 through a partnership with BRINKS. SDT marketing and communication manager Tsholofelo Gopolang Tselapedi...
14 september 2026
David Benderly: PermaScribe seeks to put trust mark on diamond table, not just girdle
In this interview with Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa, PhotoScribe Technologies president and chief executive David Benderly explains how PermaScribe differs technically from conventional laser inscription, its potential to strengthen security, and...
31 august 2026
The great reset: Paul Zimnisky on supply catharsis, De Beers' bargain and the case for natural diamonds
The natural diamond industry is in the throes of its most profound reset in a generation. Supply is plunging to its lowest level since 1987 and De Beers—once valued at over $9 billion—is reportedly being sold for as little as $1 billion.
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10 august 2026
The "accelerator" of global warming found under the Arctic ice
10 july 2023
Climatologists from European countries and Canada have concluded that groundwater sources in the Arctic contain a lot of methane and, thus, represent a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.
An ice exploration complex for the Northern Sea Route tested in the Arctic
07 july 2023
The UAV-based ice reconnaissance complex has been successfully tested in the Arctic. The uniqueness of the tests is that the drone took off and landed on the helicopter pad of a drifting nuclear icebreaker. This was reported in the Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (NSR).
Russia's Atomflot increased the volume of cargo transportation during the winter-spring navigation
06 july 2023
Atomflot, a subsidiary of the State Corporation Rosatom, which operates nuclear icebreakers in the Arctic, published its preliminary results of the winter-spring season and announced an increase in the volume of cargo transportation.
ESA's Arctic weather monitoring satellite project progressing
05 july 2023
The Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) project under development of the European Space Agency (ESA) has passed the critical design review, a key step to start the manufacturing of the satellite ahead of planned launch in 2024.
Frequency of heavy rain in Northern hemisphere may increase by 15% due to global warming - scientists
04 july 2023
Climatologists from the United States found that each increase in average temperatures by one degree Celsius raises the frequency of heavy rains in the mountains of the Northern hemisphere by about 15%, as reported by the Lawrence National Laboratory.
The development of the Arctic fleet to be discussed at the NEVA 2023 exhibition in St. Petersburg
03 july 2023
The 17th International Exhibition on civil shipbuilding, shipping, port activities and ocean and shelf development "NEVA 2023" will be held on September 18-21, 2023 in St. Petersburg.
Roshydromet to monitor the state of permafrost
30 june 2023
The State Duma of the Russian Federation in the third and final reading adopted a law on the establishment of state monitoring of the state of permafrost.
