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    The European Union’s plan to phase out Russian natural gas imports by 2027 rests partly on increasing near-term imports of US liquefied natural gas. This will require a coordinated policy response that includes securing supplies from major exporters, global diplomacy, expanding import capacity, and alignment with Europe’s climate goals.

    • Arvind P. Ravikumar
    • , Morgan Bazilian
    •  & Michael E. Webber
    Nature Energy 7, 465-467

  • Comments & Opinion |

    Producing low-carbon hydrogen to use as a clean energy carrier is an important step towards a decarbonized economy. Plasma pyrolysis is an emerging technology that has great potential for the large-scale production of low-carbon and affordable hydrogen.

    • Guoxing Chen
    • , Xin Tu
    •  & Anke Weidenkaff
    Nature Reviews Materials 7, 333-334

  • Editorial |

    Coal has powered the world, spurring development and the advancement of society; however, the time has come to consign it to the past and find new technology to support development and advancement.

    Nature Climate Change 11, 795

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    The commercial use of natural methane hydrate is hampered by several open questions that remain regarding hydrate formation. Here the authors comment on past interpretations and aim to provide a roadmap for developing a predictive theory of methane hydrate nucleation.

    • Guang-Jun Guo
    •  & Zhengcai Zhang
    Communications Chemistry 4, 102

  • News & Views |

    Photocatalytic conversion of methane to ethane suffers from low yields due to poor selectivity and quantum efficiency. Now, ethane is produced by a photochemical looping strategy using a nanocomposite of titanium dioxide, phosphotungstic acid and silver cations, with selectivity of 90% and quantum efficiency of 3.5% at 362 nm.

    • Fumiaki Amano
    Nature Energy 5, 494-495
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