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Extreme Weather

The first tropical storm of the year is forming off Mexico and should become Tropical Storm Amanda by Wednesday night, staying far out at sea

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

A California startup says it built a nuclear battery that turns radiation straight into electricity and keeps running for years without a single charge

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

A fingertip-sized fuel pellet holds about as much energy as a ton of coal

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters warn a multi-day severe weather outbreak will pound the upper Midwest and northern Plains through Thursday with large hail, damaging winds and a few strong tornadoes

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

US wind and solar together out-generated coal across all of 2025, a milestone the country first crossed only a year earlier

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

An electric motor turns about 90% of its battery energy into motion

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Solar and wind now beat new coal plants on cost across most of the world

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Sunlight reaching Earth in one hour holds more energy than humanity uses in a year

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

UN forecasters say the next five years carry high odds of a new hottest year

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

A US Navy supercarrier runs on two nuclear reactors and can sail over 20 years without refueling

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The deadliest tornadoes pack winds above 300 miles an hour

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

For the first time, US operators are racing to bring two shuttered nuclear plants back online, targeting 2026 and 2027 restarts

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A Sacramento utility is building a 640-megawatt-hour battery on the grounds of a retired nuclear plant, recycling old power land into new storage

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather says a hot, storm-heavy summer is coming to the US as El Niño builds across the Pacific

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

A single mature tree can absorb tens of pounds of carbon dioxide a year

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center is flagging a dangerous round of severe storms Wednesday across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with tornadoes and very large hail possible

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Two mothballed US nuclear plants, Palisades and Three Mile Island, are racing to restart their reactors in 2026 and 2027 — the first comebacks of their kind

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Batteries supplied more than 40% of the power swings Texas needed in April, quietly becoming the grid’s fastest shock absorber

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The world added a record 108 gigawatts of battery storage last year, the biggest one-year jump the grid has ever seen

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Enough sunlight hits Earth in one hour to power the world for a year

By Everett Sloane

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