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If Greenland’s ice sheet melted entirely, global sea level would rise about 7.4 meters, enough to redraw coastlines worldwide

A G3 geomagnetic storm can force voltage corrections on power grids and scramble GPS, the same solar punch that drives auroras deep into the lower 48

The Storm Prediction Center flagged large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes across the northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley today as a lee trough fires supercells

New Mexico’s plane-crash-ignited Seven Cabins Fire has grown to 29,000 acres, the largest active wildfire burning in the United States

NOAA puts the odds of an above-normal Eastern Pacific hurricane season at 70%, with unusually warm water priming the basin off Mexico

Rock samples show Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome fully melted at least once in the past 10,000 years, evidence the ice could vanish again as the planet warms

A derecho can flatten counties in hours, packing hurricane-force straight-line winds across hundreds of inland miles

Analysts at S&P Global expect data-center power demand to roughly triple by 2030, with the DOE projecting data centers will eat 12% of US electricity by 2028

Virginia’s data center share of state electricity could leap to 41–59% by 2030, with Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming next

Loss of Arctic sea ice has tipped the ocean from light-limited to nitrate-limited, starving plankton and the food chain stacked above them

TAE Technologies’ Norman device hit hydrogen-boron fusion at commercially relevant energy ratios in January — a pathway with near-zero radioactive waste

US data center power demand is closing in on 1,050 terawatt-hours in 2026, ranking the sector between Japan and Russia if it were a country

Arctic Ocean ecosystems crossed a nitrogen tipping point around 2009 and may never return to their prior state, per a new Communications Earth study

Canada is fighting 65 active wildfires with six classified out of control as Lac la Biche oil-sands blazes finally come under control

Three states — Texas, California, and Arizona — will hold 80% of all new US utility-scale battery storage capacity coming online in 2026

One Texas project — Tehuacana Creek 1 — is 2026’s biggest US solar build at 837 MW plus 418 MW of co-located battery storage