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Everett Sloane

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Sakurajima just hurled its largest eruption in six months across Kyushu and triggered its first pyroclastic flow in half a decade — Japan’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Center now tracking drift for a third straight day

The U.N. just warned the next five years will smash 2024’s heat record — 91% odds one year beats it, 75% chance the stretch tops 1.5°C

The Department of Energy just handed out $94 million to eight companies building America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

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

A utility just begun building a giant grid battery on the bones of a shuttered nuclear plant — turning a decommissioned reactor site into a 640-megawatt-hour power bank

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

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

27 people are now confirmed dead across six states from the Memorial Day storm outbreak — four of the victims were children killed by tornadoes and flash flooding

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is about to kick off its first tropical storm — NHC watching a broad low forming southwest of Baja with a 50% chance inside a week

Europe just logged its hottest May day in nearly 80 years as London hit 32.3°C — Spain, Portugal, and France now roasting 12 to 16 degrees above normal through next weekend

ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

Federal regulators just finalized a crackdown on methane leaks from U.S. oil and gas wells — aiming straight at the most potent pollutant driving near-term warming

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

The USGS just released the first continent-wide map of geologic hydrogen hiding under American soil — pointing drillers toward a fuel that quietly makes itself underground

A utility just began building a giant grid battery on the bones of a shuttered nuclear plant — turning a decommissioned reactor site into a 640-megawatt-hour power bank

ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

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