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Everett Sloane

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The Department of Energy just awarded TVA and Holtec $400 million each to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal push on SMRs in a generation

A flash flood watch now covers most of north and central Georgia through tonight as slow-moving storms threaten 5 inches of rain over greater Atlanta

Mayon has now erupted for 132 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 Atlantic hurricane season officially opens Monday — and NOAA’s outlook is already the quietest in years as a strengthening El Niño shreds storms apart

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

Wildfires have now scorched 150 million hectares worldwide since January — nearly the size of Alaska, roughly double the average for this point in the year

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 new cargo ship just crossed the Atlantic with towering wing-sails doing most of the work — slashing fuel burn 40% and pointing the way past bunker-oil engines

New details just surfaced on Russia’s super-weapon sub Khabarovsk — 135 meters long, carrying six nuclear torpedoes designed to wash coastlines with radioactive waves

Russia just wrapped its Pacific nuclear submarine base at Rybachiy in anti-drone defenses — satellite photos showing new netting and cages across berths 4,000 miles from Ukraine

23 people are now dead across five states from the Memorial Day storm outbreak — four of the victims were children killed by tornadoes and flash floods

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 Storm Prediction Center just reloaded the Plains severe threat for today — tornadoes, baseball-size hail, and 80 MPH winds setting up from Kansas through Texas

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

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

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