Insights from the clean molecule economy.

Iceland is famous for turning volcanic heat into electricity and hot water. Less well known is that the same volcanic plumbing quietly releases hydrogen gas, and most of it simply drifts into the sky. As the island nation courts India as a partner for geothermal energy, carbon capture, and green hydrogen (George, 2026), a quieter question deserves attention. Could Iceland's next export be expertise in hydrogen that the Earth makes on its own? Natural hydrogen, sometimes calle

For a century, hydrogen has been something humanity manufactures. Refineries and fertilizer plants make it from natural gas, and the new generation of electrolyzers makes it from water and electricity. Research now suggests the planet has been making hydrogen on its own all along, and that some of the best places to look for it may sit beneath two of Europe's most famous mountain ranges. A September 30, 2026 feature in Futura-Sciences drew renewed attention to this idea, desc

For more than a decade, a working mine near Timmins, Ontario has been quietly exhaling hydrogen from boreholes drilled into billion-year-old rock. Nobody measured it. Nobody published the numbers. That changed on May 18, 2026, when a research team led by geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto and Oliver Warr of the University of Ottawa published findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the hydrogen economy can no longer aff

Governor Gretchen Whitmer just signed an executive directive to develop Michigan's geologic hydrogen reserves, and the implications could be huge. The state might be sitting on more natural hydrogen than anywhere else in America. What Just Happened Governor Whitmer has announced something that caught a lot of people by surprise. Michigan is going all-in on geologic hydrogen development, a resource that most people didn't even know existed until recently. Here's the kicker: Mi

The discovery of vast reserves of naturally occurring “white hydrogen” could be one of the most significant breakthroughs in the global...