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Australians may be forced to curb their appetite for hot chips as a potato shortage forces Coles to impose a purchase limit. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Our growing global dependence on just a few crops makes us vulnerable — but some countries are trying to reverse the trend. Read the Big Take ⬇️-- you'll definitely learn a thing or two! bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-… via @bbgvisualdata

In just one year, investors’ bullish exuberance for commodities has turned into a spectacular retreat trib.al/GfmgHeh

Chinese women found a new voice to demand change in 2022. The government’s tentative response suggests tensions may only deepen in the coming year trib.al/JKl3zCH

I’ll be on the energy beat for the next 3 months with Bloomberg’s best. (Seriously, the year’s hardly begun and already the China scoops are flowing.) Here’s the latest from us: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

One of China’s biggest coal importers struck a deal for Australian cargoes and others are already in talks for purchases as curbs on imports from the producer are eased Alfred Cang Stephen Stapczynski bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

China is buying Australian coal again 🇨🇳 🤝 🇦🇺 🪨 One of China’s top coal buyers struck a deal this week for Australian cargoes slated for February delivery 🚢 Beijing is moving to ease an unofficial ban on Australian coal that’s been in place since 2020 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Australia’s largest polluters would need to cut emissions by at least 4.9% a year by 2030 as the nation starts cranking down allowances under efforts to hit net zero by mid-century bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Billionaire Andrew Forrest is reviewing proposals to take control of the struggling Sun Cable project to export solar power to Singapore via a 4,200-km submarine cable. Any potential deal would require the exit of the existing management team bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

The elusive dream of a subsea power grid sending clean energy across Asia has hit a new setback: feuding billionaires. via Stephen Stapczynski bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

If there’s to be any hope of halting global temperatures from rising more than 2C this century, it will require a mammoth scaling up of carbon dioxide removal technologies to vacuum up billions of tons of the stuff from the atmosphere. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

"Ardern will be remembered as an extraordinary crisis manager and a trail-blazer for working women." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Plant blogs are always like, “if your plant is dying, it could either be because of too much water, or not enough. Or it could be too much sunlight, or too little.” It could also be because I looked at it the wrong way and didn’t remember its birthday? How is this helpful?

Soaring energy costs are squeezing global ski resorts already reeling from the impacts of climate change - via Shoko Oda bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

This is an enzyme called "Huc." Scientists say it may power your cellphone someday 🦠📱 Huc can produce a small electrical current by consuming hydrogen in the air, acting like a "natural battery" that generates power from almost nothing By Sybilla Gross bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Australia’s government is mounting a defense of natural gas even as it seeks to accelerate cuts in emissions in one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel exporters w Ben Westcott bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Andrew Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes are named among bidder groups seeking to acquire Australia’s Sun Cable after the clean energy startup collapsed following a dispute between the billionaires bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

The water trade is booming and sucking Australia dry. This story is a must-read for all Australians, & impressive work by my colleagues, including Sybilla Gross & Angus Whitley ⬇ bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

Excellent reporting on the business of Australian water by Angus Whitley Sybilla Gross Sinduja Rangarajan and Peter Waldman