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NOAA reveals its official 2026 hurricane forecast today — a strengthening El Niño is already shredding storms apart before the season even begins

The Air Force just fired an unarmed Minuteman III across the Pacific from Vandenberg — a live test of the nuclear missiles on watch for 50 years

More than 100% of Scotland’s electricity just came from renewables across a record stretch — wind alone now out-produces the entire country’s demand

BYD just overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest battery-storage supplier — grabbing 13% of the global market in a single quarter

AEP just threatened to walk away from two power grids over connection delays as AI data-center demand buckles the nation’s largest utilities

The wait for a high-power grid transformer just stretched from 30 months to five years — stranding every new AI data center trying to connect

The NRC just set a lighter rulebook for fusion plants — regulating tritium and activated metal instead of the meltdown risks that fission carries

Zap Energy just pivoted to add nuclear fission to its fusion program — hedging its bet as the race to power AI data centers heats up

Kanlaon just threw ash plumes over the central Philippines as Taal climbs to Alert Level 2 — two more volcanoes stirring while Mayon keeps erupting

51% of the Lower 48 just slipped into moderate drought or worse — tightening the grip on 155 million Americans before peak fire season even starts

AccuWeather now expects 65,000 to 80,000 wildfires across the U.S. this year — potentially torching as much as 8 million acres

Behind this week’s cold front, millions will wake to temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal — with frost advisories possible deep into the South

More than 20 inches of snow just fell across the Colorado high country in May — closing mountain passes along the I-25 corridor from Cheyenne south

A rare May snowstorm is snarling flights at Denver International — one of America’s busiest hubs buried under spring snow and winter storm warnings

An iron-based catalyst just made clean hydrogen with zero platinum — cutting the cost of the reaction inside every fuel cell on the planet

A fusion company just joined a line of 810 projects waiting to plug into America’s biggest grid — and Google already bought its power

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