Energy & Climate
A Carrington-level solar storm today could black out the grid for months
In the late summer of 1859, the Sun hurled a cloud of charged particles straight at Earth, and for two nights the planet’s night sky burned with color while telegraph wires sparked and caught fire. That episode, known as the Carrington Event, remains the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded. A storm of that size […]
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