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Everett Sloane

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ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier — is now fully stacked inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

The Memorial Day storm belt just knocked out power to more than 450,000 customers across five states — crews working through the weekend to restore the grid before Monday

Search crews are still pulling bodies from western Kentucky’s Memorial Day flash-flood wreckage — at least 27 dead across six states as the storm belt refuses to quit

Mayon has now erupted for 133 straight days — the longest run in the volcano’s recorded history as 290,000 Filipinos are still sheltering across the province

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier just collapsed 15 miles in 15 months — a modern record for grounded ice loss as warm ocean water quietly eats through its underside

The Eastern Pacific just opened hurricane season with a tropical disturbance off Baja — the Hurricane Center giving it a 50% chance of becoming the year’s first named storm

A rare May heat dome is roasting Europe — London just hit its hottest May day in 80 years as Spain and Portugal run 12°C above normal

Indonesia’s Semeru just hurled a 15,000-foot ash column over East Java — one of half a dozen Indonesian volcanoes tremoring through the same 24 hours

Engineers just built a solar still that pulls fresh water straight from the ocean — a laser-etched black metal that drinks brine and spits out salt

Antarctica’s ice sheet is now far more reactive to CO₂ than anyone modeled — updated simulations showing the continent will shed mass faster than the old forecasts

Saturday’s severe-weather belt builds from western Nebraska across the Dakotas into the Northern High Plains — storm forecasters flagging baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds through the evening

The Atlantic hurricane season opens Monday and NOAA calls it the quietest in years — just 8 to 14 named storms as a strong El Niño shreds the Atlantic

A Friday night tornado threat just reloaded across the Central and Southern Plains — strong twisters, baseball-size hail, and 80 mph winds bearing down on Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

The WMO just said an El Niño will return at the end of 2026 and push 2027 toward a new all-time global heat record — the Atlantic hurricane season already forecast below normal because of it

AccuWeather now forecasts U.S. wildfires will burn 5.5 to 8 million acres this year — built on the western snowpack’s lowest reading in 40 years

China’s BYD just overtook Tesla as the world’s largest battery energy storage deployer — capturing 13% of the global market in a single quarter

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