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Severe storms threaten the central Plains tonight with large hail and damaging winds

The new energy-harvesting trick even flips its current’s direction as temperature changes, giving engineers a fresh tuning knob

Physicists turned microscopic flaws in a material into a way to harvest usable power from ambient signals, with no battery attached

U.S. solar just passed wind as the nation’s biggest clean-power source after a single quarter added 6.4 gigawatts of new capacity

Meta is powering a new Ohio AI campus with 16 small Oklo reactors, each rated 75 megawatts, stacking up to a 1.2-gigawatt nuclear-fed data center

Forecasters say the Eastern Pacific keeps churning out storms off Mexico, with another low expected to spin up into a tropical depression later this week

China’s Linglong One is set to start commercial operation in the first half of 2026, becoming the world’s first onshore small modular reactor to go live

Greenland’s ice sheet now raises global sea level by about 0.69 millimeters a year, more than all of Antarctica combined

Canadian wildfire smoke that already fouled the Upper Midwest has drifted as far south as Florida, with Minnesota’s air hitting “very unhealthy” this week

If both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melted completely, global sea level would rise an estimated 67 meters, about 223 feet

If Greenland’s ice sheet melted entirely, global sea level would rise about 7.4 meters, enough to redraw coastlines worldwide

A G3 geomagnetic storm can force voltage corrections on power grids and scramble GPS, the same solar punch that drives auroras deep into the lower 48

The Storm Prediction Center flagged large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes across the northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley today as a lee trough fires supercells

New Mexico’s plane-crash-ignited Seven Cabins Fire has grown to 29,000 acres, the largest active wildfire burning in the United States

NOAA puts the odds of an above-normal Eastern Pacific hurricane season at 70%, with unusually warm water priming the basin off Mexico

Rock samples show Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome fully melted at least once in the past 10,000 years, evidence the ice could vanish again as the planet warms

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