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Everett Sloane

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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

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

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

A cut-off low just dumped nearly a foot of rain on South Africa’s Cape in three days — flash floods forced more than 2,000 people to flee their homes

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

NOAA just forecast a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season — 8 to 14 named storms as a strengthening El Niño shreds storms before they can spin up

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