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AccuWeather now expects U.S. wildfires to scorch as much as 8 million acres this year — with more than 60% of the country already locked in drought

The severe threat shifts east into the Midwest on Memorial Day Monday — damaging winds, large hail, and a few tornadoes aiming at holiday crowds

The Storm Prediction Center just outlined a Level 3 tornado threat over Kansas and western Missouri for Sunday — strong twisters, damaging wind, and huge hail possible

North Carolina lawmakers just moved to block Duke Energy from closing coal plants until new nuclear is approved to replace every lost megawatt

Data centers are on track to triple their slice of U.S. electricity by 2028 — climbing from roughly 4% to 12% in just five years

Scientists just found ancient underground rocks in Canada quietly making hydrogen on their own — a possible natural wellspring of clean fuel

PJM warns the largest U.S. grid could slip below reliability standards by 2027 — raising the odds of rolling blackouts in the next deep freeze

America’s power grids just caught a surprise break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the threat of summer blackouts

The Energy Department just handed eight companies $94 million to fast-track small modular reactors — clearing the licensing and supply snags that stall new plants

China’s ‘artificial sun’ just pushed its fusion plasma past a density limit physicists long called unreachable — inching closer to power too cheap to meter

The U.S. Navy is bringing nuclear-armed cruise missiles back to its attack submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon mothballed for decades

A stalled storm just drowned Indonesia’s Jambi province in days of rain — flooding and landslides swept through 21 villages and forced thousands from their homes

The U.S. Navy is putting nuclear-tipped cruise missiles back on its submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon retired decades ago

Two strong earthquakes just rattled the Pacific within hours — a magnitude 5.7 off Papua New Guinea and a 5.6 deep in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands

Strong tornadoes and baseball-size hail threaten the Plains through Memorial Day — the Storm Prediction Center flags a multiday outbreak as 27 million hit the road

Mayon volcano keeps sending glowing rockfalls down its slopes as 287,000 Filipinos remain locked out of the danger zone around the cone

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