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The U.N. just warned the next five years will smash 2024’s heat record — 91% odds one year beats it, 75% chance the stretch tops 1.5°C

The Storm Prediction Center just reloaded the Plains severe threat for today — tornadoes, baseball-size hail, and 80 MPH winds setting up from Kansas through Texas

Federal regulators just finalized a crackdown on methane leaks from U.S. oil and gas wells — aiming at the most potent pollutant quietly driving near-term warming

A utility just began building a giant grid battery on the bones of a shuttered nuclear plant — turning a decommissioned reactor site into a 640-megawatt-hour power bank

The U.S. executive order on nuclear just set a 4x target — pushing the country from 100 gigawatts of nuclear power today to 400 by 2050

The Department of Energy just awarded $2.7 billion in contracts to restart domestic uranium enrichment — the biggest bet on U.S. nuclear fuel since the Cold War

A slow-moving plume of Saharan dust is closing in on Florida and the Gulf Coast — painting sunsets a brilliant red as air quality drops across a dozen states

A woman was just swept away in her car after Memorial Day flash floods tore through Petal, Mississippi — divers pulled her body from the wreckage as the storms rolled on

AccuWeather now forecasts U.S. wildfires will burn 5.5 to 8 million acres this year — built on the western snowpack’s lowest reading in 40 years

The Atlantic hurricane season officially opens Monday — and NOAA’s outlook is already the quietest in years as a strengthening El Niño shreds storms apart

The eastern Pacific’s first tropical disturbance is already spinning off Mexico days before the Atlantic hurricane season even officially opens

A flood watch now covers most of north and central Georgia through tonight as slow-moving storms threaten 5 inches of rain over the Atlanta metro

The Storm Prediction Center has severe storms, tornadoes, and hail reloading across the Plains by Friday — a second outbreak setting up days after the holiday storms finally drain off

A six-state heat wave just pushed Memorial Day power demand past records from the Carolinas through New England — grids bracing for another spike through Friday

Mayon has now erupted for 131 straight days — the longest run in the volcano’s recorded history as 290,000 Filipinos are still sheltering across the province

Heavy rain just set a daily record in Asheville and triggered flash flooding across western North Carolina — the same hills still recovering from Hurricane Helene

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