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Everett Sloane

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Indonesia’s Semeru just hurled a 15,000-foot ash column over East Java — one of half a dozen Indonesian volcanoes tremoring through the same 24 hours

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

Antarctica’s ice sheet is now far more reactive to CO₂ than anyone modeled — updated simulations showing the continent will shed mass faster than the old forecasts

Saturday’s severe-weather belt builds from western Nebraska across the Dakotas into the Northern High Plains — storm forecasters flagging baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds through the evening

The Atlantic hurricane season opens Monday and NOAA calls it the quietest in years — just 8 to 14 named storms as a strong El Niño shreds the Atlantic

A Friday night tornado threat just reloaded across the Central and Southern Plains — strong twisters, baseball-size hail, and 80 mph winds bearing down on Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

The WMO just said an El Niño will return at the end of 2026 and push 2027 toward a new all-time global heat record — the Atlantic hurricane season already forecast below normal because of it

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

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

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

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

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