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Natural gas futures fall. A mild winter to blame?Natural gas futures slipped 3.8 percent Wednesday, ending a six-day rally. Analysts attribute the drop in natural gas futures to weather forecasts predicting relatively warm temperatures for the coming winter.聽
Want a green job? Here's who's hiring in wind energy, solarWind energy, environmental consulting, biotechnology, and solar power were some of the fastest-growing industries in 2011, according to OilPrice.com. Which companies are doing the most hiring this year?
Fisker tries new tack as woes pile up for plug-in carmakersFisker wants to share technology and sell shares, the latest sign that the economics of plug-in cars are making it difficult for automakers to turn a profit.聽
Nest Learning Thermostat: temperature control for the iPhone crowdThe Nest Learning Thermostat learns your heating and cooling habits, creating energy-efficient, customizable temperature settings for homes. Oh, and you can control the Nest Learning Thermostat with your iPhone.聽
South Africa OKs fracking for natural gasSouth Africa has lifted a ban on the hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method for tapping natural gas reserves commonly known as "fracking," according to OilPrice.com.聽South Africa ranks among the top ten global owners of shale gas resources and some say fracking will help the country exploit these resources.
Sanctions on Iran: Is there a limit to their effect on Iran's oil production?OPEC figures show a general decline in Iran's crude oil production after Iran was hit with economic sanctions this summer, according to OilPrice.com. But has the effect of the sanctions on Iran's oil production reached a limit?
Nikola Tesla gets his own museum, thanks to cartoonistNikkola Tesla, not Thomas Edison, is considered the true 'father of聽electricity'聽by many. Now, thanks to the fundraising efforts of a Seattle-based cartoonist,聽the inventor's abandoned New York laboratory may find second life as a museum dedicated to聽Nikola Tesla.
Half of Great Barrier Reef lost to starfish and cyclones in less than 30 yearsThat overall 50-percent decline, they estimate, is a yearly loss of about 3.4 percent of the reef.
Organizing and synthesizing the world's energy dataEnergy is a sector potentially well-suited to be mined with big data鈥攖he accumulation, integration, synthesis and interpretation of enormous amounts of data from disparate sources鈥擲tuebi writes.聽
Helium shortage? Bureaucrats, firms are creating too little hot air.Helium shortage is raising prices for everyone from physicists and hospitals to retailers of Mylar balloons. But it's not supply and demand that's caused the helium shortage, it's a botched public-private handoff of responsibility.
But is it really 'green'? FTC cracks down on false eco-friendly adsNew guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission warn marketers not to make broad, unqualified claims that their products are environmentally friendly or eco-friendly.
'Green banks': The answer to clean energy's subsidy woes?Green banks, clean-energy finance banks that operate as public-private financing institutions, are being touted as a life-line that will push the clean energy industry into maturity, according to OilPrice.com
The clunky, lagging transition to renewable energyHistory suggests that it can take up to 50 years to replace an existing energy infrastructure, and we don't have that long, Cobb writes.
Is energy independence a fantasy?Can America's vast shale oil and gas reserves 鈥� combined with fracking and drilling technlogies 鈥� drive the U.S. to complete energy independence? It looks doubtful, according to OilPrice.com and a report from Credit Suisse.
Oil prices fall as global demand weakensOil prices dropped 12 cents to $92.07 per barrel Monday amid expectations for weaker demand. The lag in oil prices聽showed pessimism over the prospects for both domestic and global demand given weak growth in China, the US, and Europe.
Natural gas boom in US. Is Russia the big loser?Natural gas resurgence in the United States means lower natural gas prices, more potential for Europe to drill its own natural gas, and a rising threat to Russia's gas exports.聽
Unexploded bombs lurk off US coastDisposed World War II explosives and munitions in the Gulf of Mexico pose a threat to offshore oil drilling, according to Texas oceanographers.
World's largest solar farm coming to CaliforniaAnalysts predict First Solar will win the rights to supply NextEra Energy Inc. with solar arrays for what will be the world鈥檚 largest solar farm, according to Consumer Energy Report.
As sales lag, Nissan offers Leaf discountsNissan joins General Motors Co., the maker of the Chevrolet Volt, in offering cheap leases and big discounts on electric cars.聽- Think you know the odd effects of global climate change? Take our quiz.
Climate change conjures images of long, hot summers, melting ice caps and stranded polar bears. But as the weather gets stranger, so too does its effects on the environment, sometimes in the oddest of ways. How well do you know the signs of change?
