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Extreme Weather

A building heat ridge will spread triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the central Plains next week — threatening dozens more daily records

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Behind this week’s cold front, millions will wake to temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal — with frost still possible deep into the South in late May

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A cut-off low just dumped nearly a foot of rain on South Africa’s Cape in three days — flash floods forced more than 2,000 people to flee their homes

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is already open and forecasters are eyeing its first disturbance — even as the Atlantic braces for a quieter year

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

NOAA just forecast a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season — 8 to 14 named storms as a strengthening El Niño shreds storms before they can spin up

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A killer heat wave has gripped India and Pakistan since early May — temperatures past 115°F and record-warm nights are buckling power grids for a billion people

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A new round of severe storms threatens the central Plains this weekend — forecasters warn of tornadoes and large hail just as holiday travel peaks

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

North Carolina lawmakers just moved to block Duke Energy from closing coal plants until new nuclear is approved to replace every lost megawatt

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers are on track to triple their slice of U.S. electricity by 2028 — climbing from roughly 4% to 12% in just five years

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Scientists just found ancient underground rocks in Canada quietly making hydrogen on their own — a possible natural wellspring of clean fuel

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM warns the largest U.S. grid could slip below reliability standards by 2027 — raising the odds of rolling blackouts in the next deep freeze

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s power grids just caught a surprise break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the threat of summer blackouts

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The Energy Department just handed eight companies $94 million to fast-track small modular reactors — clearing the licensing and supply snags that stall new plants

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

The final 3,000-ton magnet for the world’s largest fusion reactor just arrived in France — a 59-foot coil that took 15 years and clears the way to first plasma

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

NOAA says the Atlantic will stay quiet this hurricane season — just 8 to 14 storms even though its waters are running warmer than normal

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A brutal heat wave is baking India and Pakistan past 115°F — record-hot nights now strain power grids for more than a billion people

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The 3,000-ton heart of the world’s biggest fusion reactor just reached France — a 59-foot magnet 15 years in the making that clears the path to first plasma

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters warn tornadoes could erupt across the central Plains this holiday weekend — a new storm system takes aim just as millions hit the road

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mexico’s Popocatépetl and Guatemala’s Fuego are erupting at the same time — ash plumes rising as a belt of volcanoes fires up across the Americas

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Russia is about to sea-trial the Khabarovsk — a new submarine built to carry the Poseidon, a nuclear torpedo designed to drown coastlines in radioactive waves

By Everett Sloane

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