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

By Everett Sloane

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

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

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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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The year ending in April ran 1.42 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels

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April 2026 tied for the third-warmest April on record, with 86% odds of a new heat record by 2031

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Greenland’s ice sheet now raises global sea level by about 0.69 millimeters a year, more than all of Antarctica combined

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If both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melted completely, global sea level would rise an estimated 67 meters, about 223 feet

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Rock samples show Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome fully melted at least once in the past 10,000 years, evidence the ice could vanish again as the planet warms

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Loss of Arctic sea ice has tipped the ocean from light-limited to nitrate-limited, starving plankton and the food chain stacked above them

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Arctic Ocean ecosystems crossed a nitrogen tipping point around 2009 and may never return to their prior state, per a new Communications Earth study

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Engineers just built solar desalination panels with laser-etched black metal that pull fresh water straight from seawater — no toxic brine, no electricity, just sunlight

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Engineers just built a solar still that pulls fresh water straight from the ocean — a laser-etched black metal that drinks brine and spits out salt

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Antarctica’s ice sheet is now far more reactive to CO₂ than anyone modeled — updated simulations showing the continent will shed mass faster than the old forecasts

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China’s BYD just overtook Tesla as the world’s largest battery energy storage deployer — capturing 13% of the global market in a single quarter

By Everett Sloane

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Engineers just built a solar still that pulls fresh water straight from the ocean — a femtosecond-laser-etched black metal that drinks brine and spits out salt

By Everett Sloane

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China’s BYD just overtook Tesla as the world’s largest battery energy storage deployer — capturing 13% of the global market in a single quarter

By Everett Sloane

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A new cargo ship just crossed the Atlantic with towering wing-sails doing most of the work — slashing fuel burn 40% and pointing the way past bunker-oil engines

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Microsoft’s massive AI data center push just collided with its own clean-power goals — the company now burning through climate promises to keep servers online

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Engineers just switched on a machine that pulls carbon straight from the sky and turns it to stone — a direct-air-capture plant now scaling up in Iceland

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