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Florida wildfires tear through 120,000 acres as Hurricane Helene’s downed trees from 2024 provide kindling

Southeast burning: Georgia’s most destructive wildfire in history hits 50,000 acres as firefighters battle 40 fires per day

62% of the US is in drought — 1.85 million acres burned at 194% of the 10-year average and it’s only May

97% of the Southeast is in severe drought and Georgia just had the most destructive wildfire in state history

Commonwealth Fusion Systems applies to connect to a US power grid — a first for any fusion energy company in history

Oil experts are “befuddled” by the Iran war’s pricing — crude should be higher given the scale of the disruption

Gas at $4.39 means the Iran war is costing the average US household roughly $50 more per month at the pump

The worst spring drought since 2000 now covers 62.78% of the US — January-through-March precipitation hit its lowest point since 1895

Nebraska set a state record with 800,000 acres burned, with large fires also ripping through Kansas and Oklahoma

Georgia declared a state of emergency after two fires scorched 50,000 acres in the southern part of the state

97% of the Southeast is in severe drought or worse — the region hasn’t been this dry since records began

Storms produced 65-mph wind gusts and possible tornadoes across central Florida from Tampa to Volusia County

Florida tornado watch: NWS issued warnings across 8 central Florida counties as storms swept the I-4 corridor on May 2

Mayon’s pyroclastic flow raced 4 kilometers down the Mi-isi Gully as ash plumes hit 600 meters above the crater

Hurricane Helene left millions of downed trees across the Southeast in 2024 — now those trees are fuel

Florida has burned through 120,000 acres this year after drought “ratcheted up” in January, per NASA

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