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Sunday’s severe weather reloads across the lower Missouri Valley into the northern High Plains — hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes bearing down from Iowa to South Dakota

The Atlantic hurricane season officially opens tomorrow and NOAA’s outlook is already the quietest in years — a strengthening El Niño shreds storms before they can form

Typhoon Jangmi just strengthened into a Category 1 storm and set course straight for Okinawa — a direct hit now bearing down on a million residents

The U.N. just put the odds of the next five years smashing 2024’s heat record at 91% — and gave a 75% chance the stretch tops 1.5°C over pre-industrial

The WMO just warned a returning El Niño will push 2027 toward a new global heat record — and already has the Atlantic hurricane forecast cut because of it

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

A decommissioned nuclear plant in the Midwest is now the foundation for a 640-megawatt-hour grid battery — crews building a power bank where a reactor once stood

PJM’s grid operator just warned the nation’s biggest power network has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI loads surge — 65 million people bracing for shortfalls by 2027

The Department of Energy just greenlit $94 million for eight companies racing to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

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

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