In India, Gujarat and Assam chief ministers and the federal ports minister laid the foundation stone for the country’s first port based e-methanol plant at Deendayal Port in Kandla, Gujarat, where the 150 tonne per day facility will supply the fuel to ships on the Asia to Europe trade route. The almost $240 million project […]
When the Pittsburgh Penguins lowered Mario Lemieux’s iconic Number 66 from the rafters on a cold December night in 2000, it was not merely an athletic resurrection, but a masterclass in the quiet economics of unannounced capability. Lemieux had survived Hodgkin’s lymphoma, endured years of crippling spinal agony, and spent forty-four months in retirement while […]
From beaver pelts to pulp and paper to carbon, Québec’s forests keep finding something new worth carrying to market. Joachim LeBer has been paddling since dawn. Imagine him in 1685, twenty-one years old, his paddle finally resting across the gunwales of a birchbark canoe somewhere near Trois-Rivières. Behind him lies the St. Lawrence, the great […]
Six weeks before Election Day, the political clock is ticking, the diesel pump is running, and America’s bioeconomy is confronting an investment horizon measured in decades. It’s 6:30 in the morning here in Digestville, and time to read the overnight news releases, scan the headlines, check the latest project announcements, and see what the world’s […]
A young woman is tied to the railroad tracks. A villain, having twirled his mustache and completed his wicked work, has departed the scene. Rumbling nearer and nearer is a locomotive, its iron wheels screaming against the rails as its smokestack belches smoke into the desert sky. The heroine struggles. The ropes hold. The air […]
In Shenandoah, Iowa, where the corn rustles in the night, and in the towering timberlands of Washington’s Columbia River Gorge, the Senate Agriculture Committee’s proposed 2026 Farm Bill is a blueprint for survival. Between a statutory promise penned in Capitol Hill committee rooms and a real paycheck deposited into a small-town bank account lies an […]
West of Moscow, I once stood in a sand trap that wasn’t a sand trap. It was 1990, in Nakhabino, where the Soviet Union was attempting something almost as improbable as perestroika itself: building a championship golf course. I had gone on a journey not permitted to journalists at the time, for a story that, […]
On Virginia Key, just across the water from The Digest’s home base on Key Biscayne, Flipper is getting flipped. The old Miami Seaquarium has finally closed its doors. The dolphins are gone, the crowds have departed, and a new owner is actively rethinking one of South Florida’s most iconic pieces of real estate, where the […]
Bowman Draw, Converse County, Wyoming. April 21, 2026. It is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, more or less, and blowing. Nobody at the Rocky Road well pad needs a thermometer to establish this. The coffee is doing the measuring. A few men stand around Pete Martin Drilling’s rig with paper cups wrapped in gloved hands, partly for […]
NEW DELHI — The sun has not quite made it through the morning haze when the flight to Pune begins its departure roll at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Beyond the cabin window, runway lights recede into the gray-orange dawn as aircraft queue along the taxiways, jet engines whine in continuous idle, baggage tractors dart beneath […]
