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Extreme Weather

Wildfire damage above 7,000 feet in California’s Sierra and Mono County is showing up before official fire season begins — early-season timber fires gnawing through high-elevation forests

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Texas’s ERCOT grid is forecast to grow 11% in 2026 — peak demand projected to climb 46.8 gigawatts through 2029 as AI data centers pile into the state

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

FERC just ordered PJM — the grid serving 67 million Americans — to write new rules letting data centers plug straight into power plants without crashing residential bills

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Starting this summer, PJM will have only just enough power to keep the eastern grid stable — data centers connecting faster than utilities can build new plants

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The DOE just selected TVA and Holtec for $800 million in SMR awards — federal cash flowing to the first two American utilities racing to deploy commercial small reactors

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The NRC just approved NuScale’s uprated 77-megawatt small modular reactor design — only the second SMR ever cleared in the United States and the most powerful per module

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A heat dome is rebuilding over the Desert Southwest and southern Plains — Phoenix and Death Valley running toward 110°F with dozens of daily records back under threat

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather now forecasts 65,000 to 80,000 U.S. wildfires this year burning 5.5 to 8 million acres — drought, heat, and El Niño lining up against the West

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A tornado warning just woke up Kansas City at 1:38 a.m. — Clay and Jackson counties under a confirmed-rotation alert as severe storms tore east

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A flash flood plume just dropped torrential rain from the central Gulf Coast into the Appalachians — a woman drowned in Petal, Mississippi after her car was swept off the road

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

62% of the United States is now in drought heading into hurricane season — the largest share the country has carried into June in a decade

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center just tilted summer 2026 toward above-normal heat across every U.S. state — coast-to-coast triple-digit risk lasting through August

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The Pentagon just signed an $77 million contract with L3Harris to sustain testing of Trident II D5 submarine-launched nuclear missiles — the backbone of U.S. sea-based deterrence

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM wholesale power prices just jumped 75.5% in one quarter — 67 million Americans on the eastern grid bracing for a 15% bill hike from AI data centers

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

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