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The National Hurricane Center is watching the eastern Pacific off Mexico, where up to three tropical systems could spin up at once this week

Most of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases ends up stored in the oceans

Training a single large AI model can use as much electricity as hundreds of US homes do in a year

A dome of record June heat is spreading from New England to the Mid-Atlantic, locking parts of the East into 90-degree days for the first time this year

Stromboli is overflowing lava from its north crater again, spilling glowing rock down the Italian island’s flank in its near-constant eruption

A startup just brought America’s first privately built nuclear reactor to criticality in Idaho, clearing it to start making power by 2027

A derecho can flatten trees across hundreds of inland miles with hurricane-force straight-line winds

The Energy Department is pushing to bring at least three privately built reactors to criticality outside its national labs by July 4

A US Nimitz-class carrier runs on two nuclear reactors and can sail more than 20 years without refueling

Solar and wind now generate electricity more cheaply than new coal plants across most of the world

High-voltage power lines move electricity long distances by raising voltage and cutting current

Forecasters warn of severe storms with large hail and a few tornadoes across the northern High Plains on Tuesday as a trough sweeps in

Electricity on the grid must be used almost the instant it is generated, because it cannot be stored at large scale

A fingertip-sized uranium pellet holds about as much energy as a ton of coal

Solar has overtaken wind as America’s largest clean-power source

The U.S. added 3.6 gigawatts of solar and 2.4 of storage last quarter, while new wind crawled in at 415 megawatts

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