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A derecho can flatten counties in hours, packing hurricane-force straight-line winds across hundreds of inland miles

Analysts at S&P Global expect data-center power demand to roughly triple by 2030, with the DOE projecting data centers will eat 12% of US electricity by 2028

Virginia’s data center share of state electricity could leap to 41–59% by 2030, with Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming next

Loss of Arctic sea ice has tipped the ocean from light-limited to nitrate-limited, starving plankton and the food chain stacked above them

TAE Technologies’ Norman device hit hydrogen-boron fusion at commercially relevant energy ratios in January — a pathway with near-zero radioactive waste

US data center power demand is closing in on 1,050 terawatt-hours in 2026, ranking the sector between Japan and Russia if it were a country

Arctic Ocean ecosystems crossed a nitrogen tipping point around 2009 and may never return to their prior state, per a new Communications Earth study

Canada is fighting 65 active wildfires with six classified out of control as Lac la Biche oil-sands blazes finally come under control

Three states — Texas, California, and Arizona — will hold 80% of all new US utility-scale battery storage capacity coming online in 2026

One Texas project — Tehuacana Creek 1 — is 2026’s biggest US solar build at 837 MW plus 418 MW of co-located battery storage

Commonwealth Fusion Systems installed the first of 18 magnets in its Sparc tokamak, the next-year demo unit aimed at burning-plasma physics

Repeated rounds of severe storms threaten the northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley through Thursday with hail, damaging gusts, and flash flooding

Repeated rounds of severe storms with very large hail and isolated tornadoes will hit the northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley through Thursday

US electricity demand will climb from 4,097 TWh in 2024 to roughly 4,250 TWh in 2026, a back-to-back record stretch driven mostly by AI

The University of Arizona’s 2026 outlook calls for 20 named storms, 9 hurricanes, 4 majors, and a 155-unit ACE — sharply above NOAA

The NRC’s proposed fusion framework regulates tritium handling and neutron-activation waste, skipping the emergency cooling rules fission reactors require

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