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Everett Sloane

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Heat dome bakes 22 states this week, pushing 50 million Americans past 90 degrees and 11 million past 100

China’s “artificial sun” pushed past a fusion density ceiling that physicists believed could not be crossed, holding plasma stable at extreme densities

A confirmed tornado tracked east at 15 mph just 22 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyoming on Tuesday afternoon

NOAA expects 8 to 14 named storms, 3 to 6 hurricanes, and up to 3 majors in a below-normal 2026 Atlantic season

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

Greenland’s extreme-melt area now expands by 2.8 million square kilometers per decade, a sixfold jump since 1990

Colorado State sharpened its 2026 forecast to 13 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2 majors, well above NOAA’s lower bound

California’s grid pulled 12.3 gigawatts from batteries one evening at 7pm — 42.8% of all electricity statewide

Germany’s Focused Energy raised $240 million to build a laser fusion plant on the grounds of the shuttered Biblis nuclear station

Antarctica is losing about 135 billion tons of ice each year, with warm-water channels speeding melt from below

Developers will add 43.4 GW of utility-scale solar in 2026, a 60% jump on last year and the third record year running

U.S. developers plan to plug 86 gigawatts of new utility-scale capacity into the grid this year, a record if it lands

Grid operators will hook up 24 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage this year, up from a record 15 GW in 2025

A severe thunderstorm near Attica, Kansas pushed east at 45 mph on Tuesday, packing 80 mph gusts and mobile-home damage warnings

Texas alone accounts for 40% of new solar and 53% of new battery storage being built across the country in 2026

EF-4 packing 180 mph winds tore through Grove Hill, Alabama as Tuesday’s derecho spawned 67 tornadoes across seven Southern states

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