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Solar has overtaken wind as America’s largest clean-power source

The U.S. added 3.6 gigawatts of solar and 2.4 of storage last quarter, while new wind crawled in at 415 megawatts

Texas now holds 96.4 gigawatts of clean power, nearing the 100-gigawatt mark

The year ending in April ran 1.42 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels

April 2026 tied for the third-warmest April on record, with 86% odds of a new heat record by 2031

Europe staged its largest-ever wildfire defense, pre-positioning 777 firefighters and 22 aircraft across six countries

Severe storms threaten the central Plains tonight with large hail and damaging winds

The new energy-harvesting trick even flips its current’s direction as temperature changes, giving engineers a fresh tuning knob

Physicists turned microscopic flaws in a material into a way to harvest usable power from ambient signals, with no battery attached

U.S. solar just passed wind as the nation’s biggest clean-power source after a single quarter added 6.4 gigawatts of new capacity

Meta is powering a new Ohio AI campus with 16 small Oklo reactors, each rated 75 megawatts, stacking up to a 1.2-gigawatt nuclear-fed data center

Forecasters say the Eastern Pacific keeps churning out storms off Mexico, with another low expected to spin up into a tropical depression later this week

China’s Linglong One is set to start commercial operation in the first half of 2026, becoming the world’s first onshore small modular reactor to go live

Greenland’s ice sheet now raises global sea level by about 0.69 millimeters a year, more than all of Antarctica combined

Canadian wildfire smoke that already fouled the Upper Midwest has drifted as far south as Florida, with Minnesota’s air hitting “very unhealthy” this week

If both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melted completely, global sea level would rise an estimated 67 meters, about 223 feet

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