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Extreme Weather

Heavy rain and flash flooding will snarl the Memorial Day drive home from the Plains to the Northeast — forecasters warn of washed-out roads across a dozen states

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A utility is building a giant grid battery on the bones of a shuttered nuclear plant — turning a decommissioned reactor site into a 640-megawatt-hour power bank

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Three U.S. startups are racing to switch on brand-new advanced reactors before year’s end — the opening push to quadruple America’s nuclear power

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A level 3 tornado outbreak threatens 55 million across the Midwest this Memorial Day — violent twisters, giant hail, and 80 mph winds bearing down on St. Louis

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Engineers just designed a tiny battery that runs on nuclear waste and could power a sensor for decades without a single recharge

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

The first commercial-scale floating wind farm just started sending power ashore — turbines anchored in water far too deep for traditional foundations

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Nearly 290,000 Filipinos are still displaced as Mayon keeps spilling lava — one of the longest eruptions in the volcano’s recorded history grinds on

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds battered the Plains over the holiday weekend — shredding crops and pummeling cars across three states

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A building heat dome will bake the country right after the holiday — triple-digit temperatures surging from the Desert Southwest into the Plains and toppling dozens of records

By Everett Sloane

Climate Policy and Regulation

Federal regulators just finalized a rule cracking down on methane leaking from oil and gas wells — targeting the potent gas driving the fastest near-term warming

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Phoenix and Death Valley are headed back toward 110-plus degrees this week — an early blast of summer heat set to topple records across the Desert Southwest

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Eastern Pacific’s first storm of the season is brewing off Mexico — forecasters watching a disturbance that could spin up before the Atlantic even opens

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The biggest new power line in a generation just cleared its final hurdle — a cross-country link built to carry cheap wind power to where it’s needed most

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The severe threat won’t quit after Memorial Day — forecasters warn the storm line will reload Tuesday from the Ohio Valley into the Mid-South

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A second round of tornado-capable supercells is already lining up for late this week across the central Plains — forecasters eyeing the next threat days after the holiday

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The severe threat shifts east into the Midwest on Memorial Day Monday — damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes taking aim at cities packed with holiday crowds

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Severe storms just killed two and tore through North Texas — Wise and Parker counties reeling from weekend damage as the holiday outbreak spreads

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A Level 3 tornado outbreak threatens 4.5 million across Nebraska and Iowa on Memorial Day weekend — strong twisters, 75 mph winds, and baseball hail

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Days of heavy rain will drench the holiday route from Texas to New York — forecasters flag flash flooding across a dozen states this Memorial Day weekend

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Scientists just held fusion plasma hotter than the sun’s core for a record stretch — trapping superheated gas long enough to edge closer to real power

By Everett Sloane

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