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Iowa is famous for corn, soybeans, and the nitrogen fertilizer that feeds them. It may soon be known for something else. Snowfox Discovery, a natural hydrogen exploration company backed by bp Ventures and Rio Tinto, has secured more than 10,000 acres of exploration leases in Audubon County, Iowa, marking its first major land position in the United States (Hydrogen Central, 2026). The company is targeting the Mid-Continental Rift, which it calls the most prospective region in

Namibia's flagship green hydrogen venture has secured a second round of concessional support from the African Development Bank. Hyphen Hydrogen Energy will receive a grant of US$5.93 million, roughly N$96.22 million, from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) under its Africa Green Hydrogen Programme to carry the project through its preparation phase toward a final investment decision (Bioenergy Times, 2026). The award follows a US$10 million reimbursable grant the ba

South Korea's YPP Corporation has agreed to study a $2 billion green ammonia project in East Kazakhstan, built around roughly 1 gigawatt of new wind and solar capacity feeding an electrolyzer complex capable of producing up to 55,000 metric tons of green hydrogen and 310,000 metric tons of green ammonia every year. The memorandum was signed during President Kassym Jomart Tokayev's visit to South Korea, with Kazakhstan's Ministry of Energy, East Kazakhstan regional authorities

Green hydrogen has long been discussed as the fuel of the future. What has been missing is the industrial-scale infrastructure to make it a fuel of the present. A new cooperation agreement signed this week between Ohmium International Inc. and Hynfra P.S.A. suggests that gap is beginning to close, and the implications for the global hydrogen economy stretch far beyond the three countries named in the deal. On June 17, 2026, Ohmium, a manufacturer of high-efficiency, modular P

As Saudi Arabia and the UAE push forward with large-scale hydrogen megaprojects aimed at future exports, Jordan is taking a more...