Cargill's latest co-development push shows how food makers are using ingredient expertise and pilot testing to accelerate complex product reformulation.
New Nature research identifies a recurring tropical-Antarctic climate link that could improve understanding of ice variability and sea-level risk.
GEF is putting $140M behind a major drought resilience program for 2026-2030. The plan targets water risk, land degradation and long-term preparedness globally.
As film, corrugated and aluminum costs rise in 2026, companies are using lightweighting and specification changes to manage product costs before raising prices.
Equipment availability is only one project variable. Skilled labor, contractor capacity and permitting increasingly determine when infrastructure gets built.
Record sulfur prices and tighter global supply are raising phosphate fertilizer costs as U.S. farmers face growing sulfur needs in their fields.
Ocean freight contracts are increasingly passing bunker, emissions and regulatory fuel costs to shippers through adjustable surcharges and formulas.
Insurers are looking deeper into supplier networks as concentrated sourcing and hidden upstream dependencies reshape business interruption risk.
Specialty chemical buyers can face steep cost increases even in weak markets when qualification requirements and limited supply eliminate substitution options.
Automotive supplier distress is showing up in cash flow, debt and investment decisions before bankruptcy, creating hidden risk for procurement teams.
UT and MD Anderson researchers report early biological changes from microplastic exposure before visible tissue damage, as cancer research continues.
Fixed supplier pricing can mask rising energy, freight and material costs. Procurement teams need to know whether promised prices are still sustainable.
Generator, battery and microgrid costs tell only part of the resilience story. Outage duration, critical load and fuel access can change the economics.
New research is shifting space-based solar power from theoretical generation toward harder questions about power beaming, regulation and grid integration.
Bioeconomy strategies are expanding in 76 countries, but new research finds governance gaps around land, genetic resources, data and benefit sharing.
Kimberly-Clark is testing hesperaloe as a potential tissue fiber. The move could reduce wood-pulp use while adding a new option to its supply chain at scale.
The environmental sensor market is projected to grow from $2.08 billion in 2025 to $3.52 billion by 2030 as monitoring shifts to continuous data.
A new Nature Sustainability study finds companies using accepted accounting methods can produce climate estimates that differ by a factor of two.
Volatile power and gas markets are making contract renewal timing a financial risk, pushing companies toward continuous energy hedging strategies.
Fixed supplier pricing transfers commodity risk, but companies with hedgeable inputs may gain more control by separating market exposure from supplier costs.