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Everett Sloane

Latest Articles by Everett Sloane

The Atlantic’s great ocean conveyor belt is showing signs of slowing, with wide climate stakes

A single hurricane can release heat at about 200 times the world’s electrical generating capacity

5 power projects so large they rewrote the landscape around them

Ball lightning is a glowing weather phenomenon scientists still struggle to explain or reproduce

5 energy giants built where engineers had to fight the landscape

5 danger zones where monitoring never gets a day off

The New Madrid fault could shake 15 million Americans across eight states awake at once

The New Madrid seismic zone could level Midwestern cities far from any coast

Billings hit 111 degrees as extreme heat becomes America’s deadliest weather

A wildfire tore through Big Sur and shut down seven miles of Highway 1

Rip currents can outswim Olympians and cause about 100 US deaths a year

Yellowstone’s odds of erupting in any given year are about 1 in 730,000

The New Madrid fault could shake eight states harder than any California quake

A Cascadia megaquake could hurl a 40-foot wall of water into coastal towns

Utah’s mapped Wasatch fault runs along the Salt Lake City metro

The strongest quake in 40 years just rattled the half-million people living on Europe’s supervolcano