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Extreme Weather

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the southern Philippines Monday morning and collapsed a university building in General Santos as coastal towns fled a tsunami warning

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Lightning strikes somewhere on Earth roughly 8 million times every single day

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Extreme Weather

Forecasters are tracking a new disturbance off Mexico’s Pacific coast that could dump 3 to 5 inches of rain across Central America this week

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Energy & Climate

The oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases

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Extreme Weather

Record June heat is spreading from New England to the Mid-Atlantic, pushing parts of the East to 90 degrees for the first time this year

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Energy & Climate

A single large wind turbine can power roughly a thousand homes when the wind is steady

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Extreme Weather

Forecasters expect US wildfires to burn between 5.5 and 8 million acres this year as drought deepens across the West

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Extreme Weather

The UN’s weather agency says the next five years carry high odds of setting a new hottest-year record

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Power and Grids

A G3 geomagnetic storm can force voltage corrections on power grids and scramble GPS for hours

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Extreme Weather

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

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Extreme Weather

The National Hurricane Center is watching the eastern Pacific off Mexico, where up to three tropical systems could spin up at once this week

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Energy & Climate

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

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Energy & Climate

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

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Extreme Weather

A dome of record June heat is spreading from New England to the Mid-Atlantic, locking parts of the East into 90-degree days for the first time this year

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Stromboli is overflowing lava from its north crater again, spilling glowing rock down the Italian island’s flank in its near-constant eruption

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Nuclear

A startup just brought America’s first privately built nuclear reactor to criticality in Idaho, clearing it to start making power by 2027

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Extreme Weather

A derecho can flatten trees across hundreds of inland miles with hurricane-force straight-line winds

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Nuclear

The Energy Department is pushing to bring at least three privately built reactors to criticality outside its national labs by July 4

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Nuclear

A US Nimitz-class carrier runs on two nuclear reactors and can sail more than 20 years without refueling

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Energy Transition

Solar and wind now generate electricity more cheaply than new coal plants across most of the world

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