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Power and Grids

High-voltage power lines move electricity long distances by raising voltage and cutting current

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters warn of severe storms with large hail and a few tornadoes across the northern High Plains on Tuesday as a trough sweeps in

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Electricity on the grid must be used almost the instant it is generated, because it cannot be stored at large scale

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

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

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

The U.S. added 3.6 gigawatts of solar and 2.4 of storage last quarter, while new wind crawled in at 415 megawatts

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Texas now holds 96.4 gigawatts of clean power, nearing the 100-gigawatt mark

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Europe staged its largest-ever wildfire defense, pre-positioning 777 firefighters and 22 aircraft across six countries

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Severe storms threaten the central Plains tonight with large hail and damaging winds

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

The new energy-harvesting trick even flips its current’s direction as temperature changes, giving engineers a fresh tuning knob

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Physicists turned microscopic flaws in a material into a way to harvest usable power from ambient signals, with no battery attached

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

U.S. solar just passed wind as the nation’s biggest clean-power source after a single quarter added 6.4 gigawatts of new capacity

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Meta is powering a new Ohio AI campus with 16 small Oklo reactors, each rated 75 megawatts, stacking up to a 1.2-gigawatt nuclear-fed data center

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters say the Eastern Pacific keeps churning out storms off Mexico, with another low expected to spin up into a tropical depression later this week

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

China’s Linglong One is set to start commercial operation in the first half of 2026, becoming the world’s first onshore small modular reactor to go live

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Canadian wildfire smoke that already fouled the Upper Midwest has drifted as far south as Florida, with Minnesota’s air hitting “very unhealthy” this week

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

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