David Fickling

The supply shock from the Iran war is accelerating Asia’s electric vehicle revolution

The current geopolitical emergency shows that chip-producing South Korea and Taiwan need to increase the use of renewables

With each passing year, batteries get cheaper, lighter and more powerful

The country’s plans are best understood not as a genuine expansion, but a bid to hobble the front-runner

The country already has the power grid of the future; the problem is it’s being used in a grossly inefficient manner

Humanity’s risk of starvation is going up with falling crop yields, strained water supplies and restrictive food trade

Prices are at their lowest in a decade, and factories are saddled with more than twice the capacity they need

The year’s fossil fuel output boom is now piling up in inventories, sending prices slumping

The monsoon belt from South-east Asia to West Africa is where catastrophic rainfall is set to increase most dramatically

The story of the modern Chinese diet is one of scarcity, boom and bust