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The Western U.S. just logged its lowest snowpack in 40 years — and hydrologists warn Glen Canyon Dam could stop producing power before Christmas as Lake Powell drains

The Memorial Day tornado threat just shifted east — forecasters warn strong twisters, baseball-size hail, and 80 mph winds will rake the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic Tuesday

Indonesia just sounded the alarm on one of its deadliest volcanoes — Awu is stirring again with fresh tremors, and tens of thousands live inside the blast zone

Engineers just switched on a machine that pulls carbon straight from the sky and turns it to stone — a direct-air-capture plant now scaling up in Iceland

Heavy rain and flash flooding will snarl the Memorial Day drive home from the Plains to the Northeast — forecasters warn of washed-out roads across a dozen states

A utility is 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

Three U.S. startups are racing to switch on brand-new advanced reactors before year’s end — the opening push to quadruple America’s nuclear power

A level 3 tornado outbreak threatens 55 million across the Midwest this Memorial Day — violent twisters, giant hail, and 80 mph winds bearing down on St. Louis

Engineers just designed a tiny battery that runs on nuclear waste and could power a sensor for decades without a single recharge

The first commercial-scale floating wind farm just started sending power ashore — turbines anchored in water far too deep for traditional foundations

Nearly 290,000 Filipinos are still displaced as Mayon keeps spilling lava — one of the longest eruptions in the volcano’s recorded history grinds on

Baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds battered the Plains over the holiday weekend — shredding crops and pummeling cars across three states

A building heat dome will bake the country right after the holiday — triple-digit temperatures surging from the Desert Southwest into the Plains and toppling dozens of records

Federal regulators just finalized a rule cracking down on methane leaking from oil and gas wells — targeting the potent gas driving the fastest near-term warming

Phoenix and Death Valley are headed back toward 110-plus degrees this week — an early blast of summer heat set to topple records across the Desert Southwest

The Eastern Pacific’s first storm of the season is brewing off Mexico — forecasters watching a disturbance that could spin up before the Atlantic even opens

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