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Gray whales are abandoning the migration route they have used for centuries — turning into San Francisco Bay as climate change starves their Arctic feeding grounds

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Tropical Storm Jangmi is set to slam mainland Japan Tuesday — Osaka, Hamamatsu, and Tokyo bracing for 50+ mph wind gusts and heavy rain

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U.S. wildfires have already torched 1.88 million acres this year — 194% above the 10-year average before summer even starts

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The Storm Prediction Center just flagged hail and damaging wind threats across the northern High Plains tonight and Tuesday — a slow trough firing supercells from Montana into the Dakotas

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Forecasters just gave the season’s first Eastern Pacific tropical disturbance an 80% chance of spinning up into a tropical storm by midweek off southern Mexico

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Japan’s Sakurajima fired ash plumes over Kyushu two days in a row as Mayon kept erupting in the Philippines — two of the planet’s busiest volcanoes blew at once

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Severe storms killed 23 people across five states over Memorial Day weekend — four of the dead were children caught by tornadoes and flash floods

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The Atlantic hurricane season opens today and NOAA’s official outlook is the quietest in years — 8 to 14 storms even as ocean waters run warmer than normal

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The Storm Prediction Center flagged a multi-day tornado, baseball-hail, and 70 mph wind threat across the northern Plains starting today and running into Sunday night

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The 2026 U.S. wildfire toll has already hit 1.92 million acres across 26,568 fires — peak season still weeks away as the West runs on its driest April in 40 years

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The U.N. just warned one of the next five years will smash the all-time heat record — 91% odds, 75% chance the stretch crosses 1.5°C

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A new Nature study just connected warming temperatures to bigger hailstones — backed by the April Springfield, Missouri storm that dropped grapefruit-sized ice on the city

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A heat dome is rebuilding across the Desert Southwest and Plains this week — Phoenix and Death Valley pushing back toward 110°F as dozens of daily records come under threat

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Mayon’s lava flows have now run 132 straight days — the longest continuous eruption in the volcano’s recorded history, with roughly 290,000 Filipinos still displaced

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Severe storms killed two people in North Texas over the holiday weekend — Wise and Parker counties left without power as supercells barreled through after dark

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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center just tilted summer odds above-normal heat across every U.S. state — coast-to-coast triple-digit risk through August

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Antarctica’s sea ice just collapsed under a ‘triple whammy’ of climate chaos — intensifying winds, warming water, and lost cooling now threatening to drive global warming faster

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A slow-moving plume of Saharan dust is closing in on Florida and the Gulf Coast — painting sunsets brilliant red as air quality drops across a dozen states

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Mount Bulusan is still tremoring at Alert Level 3 — white steam plumes rising 200 meters above the crater rim and the 5 kilometer exclusion zone holding

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Mayon has now erupted for 134 straight days — the longest run in the volcano’s recorded history as 290,000 Filipinos are still sheltering across the province

By Everett Sloane

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