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Nuclear

The Department of Energy just greenlit $94 million for eight companies racing to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier — is now fully stacked inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The Memorial Day storm belt just knocked out power to more than 450,000 customers across five states — crews working through the weekend to restore the grid before Monday

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Search crews are still pulling bodies from western Kentucky’s Memorial Day flash-flood wreckage — at least 27 dead across six states as the storm belt refuses to quit

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mayon has now erupted for 133 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

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier just collapsed 15 miles in 15 months — a modern record for grounded ice loss as warm ocean water quietly eats through its underside

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Eastern Pacific just opened hurricane season with a tropical disturbance off Baja — the Hurricane Center giving it a 50% chance of becoming the year’s first named storm

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A rare May heat dome is roasting Europe — London just hit its hottest May day in 80 years as Spain and Portugal run 12°C above normal

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Indonesia’s Semeru just hurled a 15,000-foot ash column over East Java — one of half a dozen Indonesian volcanoes tremoring through the same 24 hours

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Engineers just built a solar still that pulls fresh water straight from the ocean — a laser-etched black metal that drinks brine and spits out salt

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Antarctica’s ice sheet is now far more reactive to CO₂ than anyone modeled — updated simulations showing the continent will shed mass faster than the old forecasts

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Saturday’s severe-weather belt builds from western Nebraska across the Dakotas into the Northern High Plains — storm forecasters flagging baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds through the evening

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Atlantic hurricane season opens Monday and NOAA calls it the quietest in years — just 8 to 14 named storms as a strong El Niño shreds the Atlantic

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A Friday night tornado threat just reloaded across the Central and Southern Plains — strong twisters, baseball-size hail, and 80 mph winds bearing down on Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The WMO just said an El Niño will return at the end of 2026 and push 2027 toward a new all-time global heat record — the Atlantic hurricane season already forecast below normal because of it

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather now forecasts U.S. wildfires will burn 5.5 to 8 million acres this year — built on the western snowpack’s lowest reading in 40 years

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

China’s BYD just overtook Tesla as the world’s largest battery energy storage deployer — capturing 13% of the global market in a single quarter

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Sakurajima just hurled its largest eruption in six months across Kyushu and triggered its first pyroclastic flow in half a decade — Japan’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Center now tracking drift for a third straight day

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The U.N. just warned the next five years will smash 2024’s heat record — 91% odds one year beats it, 75% chance the stretch tops 1.5°C

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The Department of Energy just handed out $94 million to eight companies building America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

By Everett Sloane

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