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Everett Sloane

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The Pentagon just signed an $77 million contract with L3Harris to sustain testing of Trident II D5 submarine-launched nuclear missiles — the backbone of U.S. sea-based deterrence

Gray whales are abandoning the migration route they have used for centuries — turning into San Francisco Bay as climate change starves their Arctic feeding grounds

Tropical Storm Jangmi is set to slam mainland Japan Tuesday — Osaka, Hamamatsu, and Tokyo bracing for 50+ mph wind gusts and heavy rain

U.S. wildfires have already torched 1.88 million acres this year — 194% above the 10-year average before summer even starts

PJM wholesale power prices just jumped 75.5% in one quarter — 67 million Americans on the eastern grid bracing for a 15% bill hike from AI data centers

The Storm Prediction Center just flagged hail and damaging wind threats across the northern High Plains tonight and Tuesday — a slow trough firing supercells from Montana into the Dakotas

Forecasters just gave the season’s first Eastern Pacific tropical disturbance an 80% chance of spinning up into a tropical storm by midweek off southern Mexico

China’s first commercial small modular reactor is set to start generating power this year — the country racing ahead of every Western SMR project on the schedule

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

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