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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.
Lab-grown...
10 august 2026
Alaska villages chosen for federal relocation grants were singled out for climate-change threats — and progress
07 december 2022
Newtok and Napakiak will each get $25 million to fund relocation projects.
A permafrost range will appear on the territory of the Norilsk industrial region
06 december 2022
Supported by Norilsk Nickel, the Arctic State University plans to create a permafrost range on the territory of the Norilsk industrial region.
Arctic settlements are threatened by soil erosion due to thawing of permafrost
06 december 2022
Erosion processes in the Arctic regions caused by global warming and the melting of permafrost pose a threat to local residents, as well as to the flora and fauna of the region. Nikita Tananaev, a leading researcher at the Northeastern Federal University and the Institute of Permafrost Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expressed this opinion to TASS.
The launch of the Kola wind farm, the most powerful in the Arctic
05 december 2022
The first stage of the Kola wind farm with a capacity of 170 megawatts has been commissioned in the Murmansk region, the energy company Enel Russia reported. The design capacity of the facility reaches 201 megawatts.
Rapidly warming Arctic causing greater snowfall further south
02 december 2022
With the Arctic warming four times faster than the rest of the world, more moisture is being held in the atmosphere and falling as snow in northern Europe
Nornickel plans to conclude a contract for the Sibir nuclear-powered icebreaker until 2041
01 december 2022
The company said that the contract is at the stage of signing
Atlantic Ocean water began warming the Arctic as early as 1907
30 november 2022
A sediment core from Svalbard has revealed a sudden influx of warm water in the Arctic in 1907, which is evidence of a process that is spurring ice loss
