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Energy Transition

Geologists just mapped the first continental hunt for natural ‘gold’ hydrogen across the United States — pinpointing where the ground quietly cooks its own clean fuel

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

American Electric Power is now threatening to walk away from two of the biggest U.S. power grids — calling AI data center connection delays a breaking point

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million now bracing for shortfalls

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

NuScale just locked in a Tennessee Valley Authority path to 6 gigawatts of U.S. small modular reactors — the biggest SMR deployment plan in the country

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A slow-moving plume of Saharan dust is closing in on Florida and the Gulf Coast — painting sunsets brilliant red as air quality drops across a dozen states

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mount Bulusan is still tremoring at Alert Level 3 — white steam plumes rising 200 meters above the crater rim and the 5 kilometer exclusion zone holding

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mayon has now erupted for 134 straight days — the longest run in the volcano’s recorded history as 290,000 Filipinos are still sheltering across the province

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Sakurajima just sent another ash plume over Kyushu this morning — Japan’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Center now tracking drift for a fourth straight day

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather just boosted its 2026 wildfire forecast past 5.5 million acres — the western snowpack’s lowest reading in 40 years setting the stage for a brutal summer

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

ProLogium just filed to go public through a SPAC merger — the latest solid-state battery maker cashing in to build its first overseas gigawatt plant in France

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The 2026 wildfire season has already burned 2.3 million acres across 29,023 fires — one million more than this time last year and peak season hasn’t even started

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Warm ocean water just got caught carving hidden channels beneath East Antarctica’s ice — melting from below at a pace no climate model has ever captured

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Sunday’s severe weather reloads across the lower Missouri Valley into the northern High Plains — hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes bearing down from Iowa to South Dakota

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Atlantic hurricane season officially opens tomorrow and NOAA’s outlook is already the quietest in years — a strengthening El Niño shreds storms before they can form

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Typhoon Jangmi just strengthened into a Category 1 storm and set course straight for Okinawa — a direct hit now bearing down on a million residents

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The U.N. just put the odds of the next five years smashing 2024’s heat record at 91% — and gave a 75% chance the stretch tops 1.5°C over pre-industrial

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The WMO just warned a returning El Niño will push 2027 toward a new global heat record — and already has the Atlantic hurricane forecast cut because of it

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

The USGS just released the first continent-wide map of hidden hydrogen trapped under American soil — pointing drillers at a fuel that quietly makes itself underground

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A decommissioned nuclear plant in the Midwest is now the foundation for a 640-megawatt-hour grid battery — crews building a power bank where a reactor once stood

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM’s grid operator just warned the nation’s biggest power network has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI loads surge — 65 million people bracing for shortfalls by 2027

By Everett Sloane

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