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Extreme Weather

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

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

Energy & Climate

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

27 people are now confirmed dead across six states from the Memorial Day storm outbreak — four of the victims were children killed by tornadoes and flash flooding

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is about to kick off its first tropical storm — NHC watching a broad low forming southwest of Baja with a 50% chance inside a week

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Europe just logged its hottest May day in nearly 80 years as London hit 32.3°C — Spain, Portugal, and France now roasting 12 to 16 degrees above normal through next weekend

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

Climate Policy and Regulation

Federal regulators just finalized a crackdown on methane leaks from U.S. oil and gas wells — aiming straight at the most potent pollutant driving near-term warming

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

Energy Transition

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

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A utility just began 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

ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The Department of Energy just awarded TVA and Holtec $400 million each to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal push on SMRs in a generation

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A flash flood watch now covers most of north and central Georgia through tonight as slow-moving storms threaten 5 inches of rain over greater Atlanta

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mayon has now erupted for 132 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 Atlantic hurricane season officially opens Monday — and NOAA’s outlook is already the quietest in years as a strengthening El Niño shreds storms apart

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

Extreme Weather

Wildfires have now scorched 150 million hectares worldwide since January — nearly the size of Alaska, roughly double the average for this point in the year

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

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