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“It certainly will be a problem at some point,” said Mike Goosay, chief investment officer and global head of fixed income at Principal Asset Management.

South Korean conglomerate Samsung unveiled on Sunday a plan to invest $310 billion over the next five years mostly in technology powering artificial intelligence, aiming to meet growing demand driven by a global boom.

In a lab in a renovated warehouse on the banks of a churning, brown river in Belém, Brazil, machines are pulping candidates for the next global "superfood".

Europe is trying to get itself on the global rare-earths map, and a new facility on Russia’s border is its opening bid.

"By defining 'rice-killing floods,' we were able to quantify for the first time how these specific floods are consistently destroying one of the most important staple foods for more than half of the global population."