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Everett Sloane

Latest Articles by Everett Sloane

Rogue waves tall as a ten-story building were dismissed as sailors’ myths for centuries

Ball lightning is so rare and strange that scientists long doubted it was real

A wall of dust a mile high can swallow an entire city in minutes

The world’s largest battery can now store enough power for hundreds of thousands of homes

Microsoft is restarting a shuttered reactor to feed its power-hungry AI data centers

A rare summer El Nino is smothering the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters say

One spot in Venezuela is struck by lightning almost 300 nights a year

A fast-moving wildfire forced more than 20,000 people to flee Canada’s Okanagan Valley

5 cities redesigning daily life around dangerous heat

8 of the biggest hydroelectric dams on the planet

A canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon hides beneath Antarctica’s ice

More than a third of US fish and wildlife species now face extinction within decades

Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell gas crater has been burning nonstop since 1971

Antarctica’s Vostok Station logged 128 below zero, the coldest temperature ever measured on Earth

The Three Gorges Dam is so massive engineers calculate it slightly slows Earth’s spin

Hurricane Lala raked Hawaii’s Big Island with damaging wind and drenching rain

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