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Everett Sloane

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A wall of volcanic mud from Mount Rainier could reach Seattle’s suburbs within an hour

Yellowstone sits on a supervolcano that has erupted catastrophically three times in the deep past

Mount Vesuvius still looms over three million people around the Bay of Naples

US startups fire up small reactors as AI data centers scramble for round-the-clock power

Derecho windstorms can flatten crops across several states in hours

Geothermal wells can tap heat deep underground to run a city’s power

A giant grid transformer can take a year or more to replace after it fails

Wildfire smoke can drift across a continent and choke cities thousands of miles away

The San Andreas fault is quietly building toward the ‘Big One’

A single Gulf hurricane can push a wall of seawater miles inland

Rip currents drown more US beachgoers than sharks ever do

The Hoover Dam’s turbines still power millions across the desert Southwest

Nuclear plants store decades of spent fuel on-site because there’s nowhere else to put it

The world’s biggest battery farms can now power a city for hours

Thawing permafrost is releasing methane locked away for thousands of years

Small modular reactors aim to shrink a nuclear plant to warehouse size

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