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Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier just collapsed 15 miles in 15 months — a modern record for grounded ice loss as warm water quietly eats away from beneath

A triple-digit heat dome will bake the Desert Southwest through Friday — Phoenix and Death Valley climbing past 115°F with dozens of daily records on the line

Sakurajima just exploded across southern Japan — hurling an 11,500-foot wall of ash over a city of 600,000 and knocking flights out of the sky across Kyushu

The Storm Prediction Center just flagged tornadoes, hail, and 80 mph winds across the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic today — the Memorial Day storm line reloads for a fourth day

Severe storms, damaging wind, and tornadoes will hit the central and southern Plains again Friday — closing out a Memorial Day week that spawned twisters in eight states

A new U.S. rule just cracked down on methane leaks from oil and gas wells — targeting the most potent pollutant the country lets slip into the sky

Denmark just slammed the brakes on new data centers entirely — the first country to tell the server-farm boom it cannot plug in until the grid catches up

A floating wind farm just started sending power ashore from water too deep to anchor anything — opening trillions of watts of ocean wind to the grid

Geologists just mapped the first continental hunt for natural ‘gold’ hydrogen across the United States — pinpointing where the ground quietly cooks its own clean fuel

AI data center power demand just hit 29.6 gigawatts — roughly what it takes to light the entire state of New York at peak

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million bracing for shortfalls by 2027

Amazon just reserved an entire nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for the next 17 years — locking in 2 gigawatts to power its hungriest AI data centers

Three advanced U.S. reactors are racing to flip the switch before year-end — small modular plants built to quadruple the power pouring into the country’s AI server farms

Forecasters say the southern Plains will reload with tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind by Friday — a second outbreak loading just as the holiday storms drain off

NOAA’s Atlantic hurricane season officially starts Monday — and forecasters are already watching the Eastern Pacific’s first tropical disturbance with days to go before naming

AccuWeather now forecasts 5.5 to 8 million acres will burn across the U.S. this year — one of the worst wildfire outlooks in a generation

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