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Forecasters warn 2026 could burn up to 8 million acres as drought deepens across the West

Analysts say data centers could roughly triple U.S. power demand by 2030

Forecasters say El Niño could grow into one of the strongest on record as a hot, storm-heavy summer builds

China is about to switch on the world’s first commercial onshore small modular reactor

California’s 2026 fire season has already burned 53,981 acres across 1,720 separate fires

Heat is the deadliest weather in the country, and most victims never see it coming

A fast-moving brush fire near Palmdale jumped to 300 acres and forced evacuations south of the city

Japan’s Sakurajima blasted an ash plume 11,483 feet over Kagoshima and coated the city in gray

The shuttered Three Mile Island reactor cleared another hurdle toward restarting to feed Microsoft’s data centers

Goldman Sachs estimates data-center electricity demand could climb 160% by 2030

Tech giants keep signing nuclear deals as AI’s hunger for power outruns the grid

Hot, dry air is stacking up from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic seaboard ahead of an approaching front

71 nuclear reactors are now under construction worldwide as the AI power crunch bites

NOAA expects a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season as a strengthening El Niño shears storms apart

A heat dome is parking over the Pacific Northwest and priming the region for record June temperatures

Solid-state batteries promise faster charging and more range, and Toyota, Nissan, and VW are racing to ship them

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