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Extreme Weather

The University of Arizona’s 2026 outlook calls for 20 named storms, 9 hurricanes, 4 majors, and a 155-unit ACE — sharply above NOAA

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The NRC’s proposed fusion framework regulates tritium handling and neutron-activation waste, skipping the emergency cooling rules fission reactors require

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Heat dome bakes 22 states this week, pushing 50 million Americans past 90 degrees and 11 million past 100

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

China’s “artificial sun” pushed past a fusion density ceiling that physicists believed could not be crossed, holding plasma stable at extreme densities

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A confirmed tornado tracked east at 15 mph just 22 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyoming on Tuesday afternoon

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

NOAA expects 8 to 14 named storms, 3 to 6 hurricanes, and up to 3 majors in a below-normal 2026 Atlantic season

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A derecho can flatten counties in hours, packing hurricane-force straight-line winds across hundreds of inland miles

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Greenland’s extreme-melt area now expands by 2.8 million square kilometers per decade, a sixfold jump since 1990

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Colorado State sharpened its 2026 forecast to 13 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2 majors, well above NOAA’s lower bound

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

California’s grid pulled 12.3 gigawatts from batteries one evening at 7pm — 42.8% of all electricity statewide

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Germany’s Focused Energy raised $240 million to build a laser fusion plant on the grounds of the shuttered Biblis nuclear station

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Antarctica is losing about 135 billion tons of ice each year, with warm-water channels speeding melt from below

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Developers will add 43.4 GW of utility-scale solar in 2026, a 60% jump on last year and the third record year running

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

U.S. developers plan to plug 86 gigawatts of new utility-scale capacity into the grid this year, a record if it lands

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Grid operators will hook up 24 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage this year, up from a record 15 GW in 2025

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A severe thunderstorm near Attica, Kansas pushed east at 45 mph on Tuesday, packing 80 mph gusts and mobile-home damage warnings

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Texas alone accounts for 40% of new solar and 53% of new battery storage being built across the country in 2026

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

EF-4 packing 180 mph winds tore through Grove Hill, Alabama as Tuesday’s derecho spawned 67 tornadoes across seven Southern states

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters now give the Pacific a 70% chance of an above-normal hurricane season — unusually warm waters and evolving climate signals lined up against quiet Atlantic odds

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A second tropical wave is spinning up in the Eastern Pacific behind the first — NHC tracking back-to-back systems heading toward southern Mexico’s coast this week

By Everett Sloane

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