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Everett Sloane

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AI data center power demand has now hit 29.6 gigawatts — roughly what it takes to light every home in New York State at peak

More than 100% of Scotland’s electricity demand was produced by renewables in 2025 — the first time, supporting 42,000 jobs across the grid

Ukrainian drones torched five Russian sites in one night — strikes hit Taganrog port, Yaroslavl fuel tanks, Armavir, Volgograd refinery, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Japan’s Sakurajima fired ash plumes over Kyushu two days in a row as Mayon kept erupting in the Philippines — two of the planet’s busiest volcanoes blew at once

Severe storms killed 23 people across five states over Memorial Day weekend — four of the dead were children caught by tornadoes and flash floods

The Atlantic hurricane season opens today and NOAA’s official outlook is the quietest in years — 8 to 14 storms even as ocean waters run warmer than normal

The Storm Prediction Center flagged a multi-day tornado, baseball-hail, and 70 mph wind threat across the northern Plains starting today and running into Sunday night

ProLogium’s public listing is set to close in the second half of 2026 — valuing the only mass-production solid-state battery line on Earth at about $3.8 billion

The 2026 U.S. wildfire toll has already hit 1.92 million acres across 26,568 fires — peak season still weeks away as the West runs on its driest April in 40 years

The U.N. just warned one of the next five years will smash the all-time heat record — 91% odds, 75% chance the stretch crosses 1.5°C

A floating offshore wind farm just started sending power ashore from water too deep to anchor anything — opening trillions of watts of ocean wind to the grid

A new Nature study just connected warming temperatures to bigger hailstones — backed by the April Springfield, Missouri storm that dropped grapefruit-sized ice on the city

A heat dome is rebuilding across the Desert Southwest and Plains this week — Phoenix and Death Valley pushing back toward 110°F as dozens of daily records come under threat

ProLogium just demoed the world’s first superfluidized all-inorganic solid-state lithium ceramic battery — the only company globally running a public mass-production line

Mayon’s lava flows have now run 132 straight days — the longest continuous eruption in the volcano’s recorded history, with roughly 290,000 Filipinos still displaced

Severe storms killed two people in North Texas over the holiday weekend — Wise and Parker counties left without power as supercells barreled through after dark

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