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Extreme Weather

The Eastern Pacific’s first storm of the season is brewing off Mexico — forecasters watching a disturbance that could spin up before the Atlantic even opens

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The biggest new power line in a generation just cleared its final hurdle — a cross-country link built to carry cheap wind power to where it’s needed most

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The severe threat won’t quit after Memorial Day — forecasters warn the storm line will reload Tuesday from the Ohio Valley into the Mid-South

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A second round of tornado-capable supercells is already lining up for late this week across the central Plains — forecasters eyeing the next threat days after the holiday

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The severe threat shifts east into the Midwest on Memorial Day Monday — damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes taking aim at cities packed with holiday crowds

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Severe storms just killed two and tore through North Texas — Wise and Parker counties reeling from weekend damage as the holiday outbreak spreads

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A Level 3 tornado outbreak threatens 4.5 million across Nebraska and Iowa on Memorial Day weekend — strong twisters, 75 mph winds, and baseball hail

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Days of heavy rain will drench the holiday route from Texas to New York — forecasters flag flash flooding across a dozen states this Memorial Day weekend

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Scientists just held fusion plasma hotter than the sun’s core for a record stretch — trapping superheated gas long enough to edge closer to real power

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Engineers just built a solar panel that keeps generating power after dark — pulling electricity from the heat the Earth radiates back into the night sky

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Texas just ran its entire grid on wind, solar, and batteries alone for hours — renewables briefly powering the nation’s biggest energy state with no gas or coal

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s grid batteries just set a record — stored electricity now discharging enough at peak to replace dozens of power plants in a matter of seconds

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Russia’s Shiveluch volcano just blasted ash 25,000 feet over Kamchatka — one of Earth’s most restless giants roaring back to life in the remote Pacific

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The U.S. just logged its hottest 12 months ever recorded — and now a Memorial Day cold blast will plunge the Plains 20 degrees below normal

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

An entire Pennsylvania nuclear plant just got reserved to feed Amazon’s AI data centers — nearly 2 gigawatts of reactor power locked up for 17 years

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

There’s clean hydrogen buried under America — and the USGS just mapped the first continent-wide hunt for a fuel that makes itself underground

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

The world just added more solar power in a single year than the entire output of America’s nuclear fleet — and the pace is still accelerating

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A building heat dome will push triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the Plains next week — threatening dozens of daily records after the holiday

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Engineers just finished assembling the most powerful magnet ever built — the 1,000-ton heart of the $22 billion reactor chasing limitless fusion energy

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A rare late-May snowstorm will bury the highest peaks of the Rockies this weekend — even as the Plains just below swelter toward 100 degrees in the same system

By Everett Sloane

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