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HOUSTON — A decade ago, natural gas was heralded as the fuel of the future. In shale fields across the country, hydraulic fracturing uncorked a lucrative new source of supply. Energy giants like Exxon Mobil and Chevron snapped up smaller companies to get in on the action, and investors poured …

Just to be clear, you should know that Massachusetts is an overwhelmingly gas-based economy. In a single year, gas supplies around 465 trillion Btu of energy, or some 50% more than second place gasoline. Massachusetts, however, produces no natural gas itself, making energy imports as integral to the state’s functioning …

Image copyright Matthew Paley/National Geographic Image caption Two women tend their potato field in the Chipursan valley, Pakistan. This region is part of the Indus water tower In a unique study, scientists have assessed and ranked the importance of Earth’s great “water towers”. These are the 78 mountainous regions that …

Let me start by thanking the International Gas Union (IGU) for its Global Gas Report 2019. The IGU report is a must read for anyone interested in energy, especially since gas is becoming the world’s go-to fuel to cut greenhouse gas emissions while also backing up intermittent wind and solar. …