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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...
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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
A new stage of the Arctic cleanup expedition begins in Taimyr
09 july 2024
A new stage of the "Arctic. General cleanup" expedition has begun in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Its main goal is to clean up the surroundings of the rural settlement of Khatangaot of man-made pollutants that have accumulated in the tundra for decades, the administration of the Taimyr municipal district reported.
Elbrus contaminated with zinc and copper
08 july 2024
Biologists from St. Petersburg State University and the A.K. Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories of the Russian Academy of Sciences have identified significant pollution of the Garabashi glacier on Elbrus.
Roshydromet completes an expedition to monitor radioactive contamination
05 july 2024
The scientific research vessel Ivan Petrov returned to Arkhangelsk after an expedition during which Roshydromet specialists monitored radioactive contamination in the southeastern part of the Barents Sea.
Volunteers to help clean up waste of the Arctic closed cities
04 july 2024
Volunteers of the Clean Arctic project will help clean up waste in closed military cities in the Arctic. The government is allocating 30 billion rubles for this purpose in 2024-2026, said Andrey Nagibin, head of the public environmental project Clean Arctic.
Scientists discover the reason for the increase in wildfires in Siberia
03 july 2024
Climatologists from China, the USA, Australia and the UK investigated the causes of forest fires in Siberia.
Russia abstains from banning heating oil as marine fuel in the Arctic
02 july 2024
Russia has not joined the ban that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) imposed on the heating oil to be used as marine fuel in the Arctic to protect the marine environment.
The Arctic Team collected more than 150 tons of waste at remote polar stations
01 july 2024
For almost a month, twenty volunteers from different regions of Russia carried out work at the Zimnegorsky Lighthouse, Morzhovets Island, Kanin Nose and Kolguev Island.
