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Extreme Weather

More than 20 inches of snow just fell across the Colorado high country in May — closing mountain passes along the I-25 corridor from Cheyenne south

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A rare May snowstorm is snarling flights at Denver International — one of America’s busiest hubs buried under spring snow and winter storm warnings

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

An iron-based catalyst just made clean hydrogen with zero platinum — cutting the cost of the reaction inside every fuel cell on the planet

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A fusion company just joined a line of 810 projects waiting to plug into America’s biggest grid — and Google already bought its power

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

NOAA drops its official 2026 hurricane forecast Thursday — early models already predict a quieter Atlantic as a strong El Niño shreds storms apart

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Millions just baked in record May heat — now a cold front will plunge the same cities 30 degrees below normal within days

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center just flagged a Level 3 tornado risk for central Mississippi and Alabama — supercells could drop large hail and tornadoes Wednesday evening

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A rare May snowstorm just buried the Colorado Rockies under two feet of snow — winter storm warnings now stretch from Cheyenne to Colorado Springs

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

A new iron-based catalyst just produced green hydrogen without any platinum — slashing the cost of the reaction every fuel-cell stack depends on

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

North America’s grid watchdog just issued a Level 3 alert over data centers going offline without warning — the highest tier the system allows

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM just forecast a 6-gigawatt power shortage by 2027 as AI data centers eat through available generating capacity across 13 states

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Nuclear

The Department of Energy just awarded $29 million to Jefferson Lab and partners to build spin-polarized fusion fuel that could nearly double reactor yield

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Power and Grids

Commonwealth Fusion just filed the first-ever application to connect a commercial fusion plant to a U.S. grid — targeting the PJM Interconnection in the early 2030s

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

51% of the lower 48 states now sit in moderate drought or worse — affecting 155.7 million Americans before peak fire season has even started

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Extreme Weather

AccuWeather now forecasts 65,000 to 80,000 wildfires will ignite across the U.S. this year — potentially burning up to 8 million acres

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The 2026 eastern Pacific hurricane season just opened May 15 with warmer-than-normal waters and a building El Niño — heightening risk for Hawaii and Mexico

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Extreme Weather

Snowmelt just ran 43 days early across California this spring — and 4 SNOTEL stations in Nevada already have zero snow on the ground

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A cold front from the Great Lakes to the southern Plains spawns damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes from north Texas to western New York Tuesday

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center just issued a rare Level 4 of 5 tornado risk for Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa Monday — only about 14 days a year hit that tier

By Everett Sloane

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