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A single mature tree can absorb tens of pounds of carbon dioxide a year

The Storm Prediction Center is flagging a dangerous round of severe storms Wednesday across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with tornadoes and very large hail possible

Two mothballed US nuclear plants, Palisades and Three Mile Island, are racing to restart their reactors in 2026 and 2027 — the first comebacks of their kind

Batteries supplied more than 40% of the power swings Texas needed in April, quietly becoming the grid’s fastest shock absorber

The world added a record 108 gigawatts of battery storage last year, the biggest one-year jump the grid has ever seen

Enough sunlight hits Earth in one hour to power the world for a year

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the southern Philippines Monday morning and collapsed a university building in General Santos as coastal towns fled a tsunami warning

Lightning strikes somewhere on Earth roughly 8 million times every single day

Forecasters are tracking a new disturbance off Mexico’s Pacific coast that could dump 3 to 5 inches of rain across Central America this week

The oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases

Record June heat is spreading from New England to the Mid-Atlantic, pushing parts of the East to 90 degrees for the first time this year

A single large wind turbine can power roughly a thousand homes when the wind is steady

Forecasters expect US wildfires to burn between 5.5 and 8 million acres this year as drought deepens across the West

The UN’s weather agency says the next five years carry high odds of setting a new hottest-year record

A G3 geomagnetic storm can force voltage corrections on power grids and scramble GPS for hours

Greenland’s ice sheet now lifts global sea level by about 0.69 millimeters a year, more than all of Antarctica

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