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Everett Sloane

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The Cascadia fault is overdue for a quake that could devastate the Northwest

America’s power grid runs as three separate networks that barely connect

Heat domes can trap dangerous temperatures over a region for days

The Plaskett Fire has shut 50 miles of Highway 1 as it tears across Big Sur

8 of the tallest dams in the United States

9 of the largest nuclear power plants running in the United States

Sinkholes are opening under US cities as old pipes and aquifers give way

Wet-bulb heat is creeping toward the limit the human body can survive

Derechos, the inland windstorms that act like hurricanes, are flattening whole regions

The US power grid is straining under the surge of AI data-center demand

Softball-size hail is falling more often as storms grow more violent

Fire whirls, the spinning columns of flame, are showing up in bigger wildfires

A single lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

The Atlantic still hasn’t produced a single hurricane, its latest start in decades

A Michigan nuclear plant shut down for good is being switched back on for AI power

A locked stretch of the San Andreas hasn’t slipped in more than 300 years

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