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Scientists just held fusion plasma hotter than the sun’s core for a record stretch — trapping superheated gas long enough to edge closer to real power

Engineers just built a solar panel that keeps generating power after dark — pulling electricity from the heat the Earth radiates back into the night sky

Texas just ran its entire grid on wind, solar, and batteries alone for hours — renewables briefly powering the nation’s biggest energy state with no gas or coal

America’s grid batteries just set a record — stored electricity now discharging enough at peak to replace dozens of power plants in a matter of seconds

Russia’s Shiveluch volcano just blasted ash 25,000 feet over Kamchatka — one of Earth’s most restless giants roaring back to life in the remote Pacific

The U.S. just logged its hottest 12 months ever recorded — and now a Memorial Day cold blast will plunge the Plains 20 degrees below normal

An entire Pennsylvania nuclear plant just got reserved to feed Amazon’s AI data centers — nearly 2 gigawatts of reactor power locked up for 17 years

There’s clean hydrogen buried under America — and the USGS just mapped the first continent-wide hunt for a fuel that makes itself underground

The world just added more solar power in a single year than the entire output of America’s nuclear fleet — and the pace is still accelerating

A building heat dome will push triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the Plains next week — threatening dozens of daily records after the holiday

Engineers just finished assembling the most powerful magnet ever built — the 1,000-ton heart of the $22 billion reactor chasing limitless fusion energy

A rare late-May snowstorm will bury the highest peaks of the Rockies this weekend — even as the Plains just below swelter toward 100 degrees in the same system

The EPA just finalized rules forcing power plants to capture their carbon or shut down by the 2030s — the first federal limits on existing plants’ emissions

Forecasters warn a sharp cold pocket will trail this weekend’s storms — plunging parts of the Plains 15 to 20 degrees below normal just days after triple-digit heat

A building heat ridge will push triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the Central Plains next week — threatening dozens more daily records

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is already open and forecasters are watching its first disturbance — even as the Atlantic braces for a quieter year

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