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Energy & Climate

A new cargo ship just crossed the Atlantic with towering wing-sails doing most of the work — slashing fuel burn 40% and pointing the way past bunker-oil engines

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

New details just surfaced on Russia’s super-weapon sub Khabarovsk — 135 meters long, carrying six nuclear torpedoes designed to wash coastlines with radioactive waves

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Russia just wrapped its Pacific nuclear submarine base at Rybachiy in anti-drone defenses — satellite photos showing new netting and cages across berths 4,000 miles from Ukraine

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

23 people are now dead across five states from the Memorial Day storm outbreak — four of the victims were children killed by tornadoes and flash floods

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

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center just reloaded the Plains severe threat for today — tornadoes, baseball-size hail, and 80 MPH winds setting up from Kansas through Texas

By Everett Sloane

Climate Policy and Regulation

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

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

The U.S. executive order on nuclear just set a 4x target — pushing the country from 100 gigawatts of nuclear power today to 400 by 2050

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The Department of Energy just awarded $2.7 billion in contracts to restart domestic uranium enrichment — the biggest bet on U.S. nuclear fuel since the Cold War

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

Extreme Weather

A woman was just swept away in her car after Memorial Day flash floods tore through Petal, Mississippi — divers pulled her body from the wreckage as the storms rolled on

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

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

The eastern Pacific’s first tropical disturbance is already spinning off Mexico days before the Atlantic hurricane season even officially opens

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center has severe storms, tornadoes, and hail reloading across the Plains by Friday — a second outbreak setting up days after the holiday storms finally drain off

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A six-state heat wave just pushed Memorial Day power demand past records from the Carolinas through New England — grids bracing for another spike through Friday

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Mayon has now erupted for 131 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

Heavy rain just set a daily record in Asheville and triggered flash flooding across western North Carolina — the same hills still recovering from Hurricane Helene

By Everett Sloane

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