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Severe storms, damaging wind, and tornadoes will hit the central and southern Plains again Friday — closing out a Memorial Day week that spawned twisters in eight states

A new U.S. rule just cracked down on methane leaks from oil and gas wells — targeting the most potent pollutant the country lets slip into the sky

Denmark just slammed the brakes on new data centers entirely — the first country to tell the server-farm boom it cannot plug in until the grid catches up

A floating wind farm just started sending power ashore from water too deep to anchor anything — opening trillions of watts of ocean wind to the grid

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

AI data center power demand just hit 29.6 gigawatts — roughly what it takes to light the entire state of New York at peak

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million bracing for shortfalls by 2027

Amazon just reserved an entire nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for the next 17 years — locking in 2 gigawatts to power its hungriest AI data centers

Three advanced U.S. reactors are racing to flip the switch before year-end — small modular plants built to quadruple the power pouring into the country’s AI server farms

Forecasters say the southern Plains will reload with tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind by Friday — a second outbreak loading just as the holiday storms drain off

NOAA’s Atlantic hurricane season officially starts Monday — and forecasters are already watching the Eastern Pacific’s first tropical disturbance with days to go before naming

AccuWeather now forecasts 5.5 to 8 million acres will burn across the U.S. this year — one of the worst wildfire outlooks in a generation

Semeru just sent gray ash plumes a kilometer into the sky over Indonesia — daily eruptions now drifting across villages with no sign of slowing

Mayon’s pyroclastic flows are still racing 3.8 kilometers down the mountain — 290,000 Filipinos still sheltering as the eruption stretches into its longest run on record

Drought now grips 61% of the country after the driest spring on record — stretching from California through the Rockies into the Plains as peak fire season looms

A strong cold front will slam into the South behind the Memorial Day storms — knocking temperatures 20 degrees below normal deep into Texas and Louisiana

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