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Everett Sloane

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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

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is already open — forecasters watching a broad low-pressure area south of Mexico for the year’s first tropical disturbance

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

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center just tilted summer odds above-normal heat across every U.S. state — coast-to-coast triple-digit risk through August

Antarctica’s sea ice just collapsed under a ‘triple whammy’ of climate chaos — intensifying winds, warming water, and lost cooling now threatening to drive global warming faster

Geologists just mapped the first continental hunt for natural ‘gold’ hydrogen across the United States — pinpointing where the ground quietly cooks its own clean fuel

American Electric Power is now threatening to walk away from two of the biggest U.S. power grids — calling AI data center connection delays a breaking point

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million now bracing for shortfalls

NuScale just locked in a Tennessee Valley Authority path to 6 gigawatts of U.S. small modular reactors — the biggest SMR deployment plan in the country

A slow-moving plume of Saharan dust is closing in on Florida and the Gulf Coast — painting sunsets brilliant red as air quality drops across a dozen states

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