When winter sets in and food becomes scarce, some mammals hibernate, entering a state of deep rest that slashes their energy needs and allows them to fast for months. However, fasting deprives them of ...

India has asked China to allow the sale of some urea cargoes as the war in the Middle East curtails the nation’s gas supplies, threatening fertilizer production in the agricultural powerhouse.

If the sustainable-chemistry world has a holy grail, it’s turning carbon dioxide from threat into feedstock. And two start-ups are reporting advances in their quest to make CO 2 a feedstock for fuel: ...

Some urea companies in India have shut down plants or moved up annual maintenance after Qatari supplies of liquefied natural gas, a key feedstock, were suspended due to the Iran war.

Several essential factors influence how efficiently cleanliness analysis is carried out in automotive and electronics manufacturing.

India trims urea output and Pakistan flags force majeure as Qatar LNG halts, lifting import and subsidy risk into June monsoon.

The global food supply faces a structural vulnerability because a majority of internationally traded nitrogen fertilizer—essential for crop yields—must transit the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint now ...

MAIRE (Milan, Italy; announced that NEXTCHEM, through its subsidiaries Stamicarbon and KT Tech, has been awarded licensing, process ...

India’s production cuts come as supply disruptions ripple through commodities markets, raising prices and stoking broader economic concerns. Rising prices of other raw materials used to make ...

How a disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could choke off global nitrogen fertilizer exports, threatening crops, food prices, and the stability of the global food system.

Researchers at UNSW Sydney have developed a method that converts carbon dioxide emissions and nitrogen pollutants into urea fertilizer, bypassing the energy-intensive ammonia step that conventional ...

UNSW engineers have tackled a longstanding problem at the heart of global agriculture: how to make urea for fertilizer without the intensity of emissions associated with fossil-fuel-powered factories.