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Climate

How Cyanobacteria Swamped New Hampshire

The state’s crystal clear lakes are turning into the Reflecting Pool.

AM Briefing

Life’s Not All Right on the Rhine

On Texas data centers, Microsoft’s carbon removal, and cross-border aluminum

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AM Briefing

Washington's ‘Wall of Flames’

On ‘draconian’ water cuts, Tesla’s China business, and Italian nuclear

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AM Briefing

Europe Braces to Bake

On Trump’s inverter ban, American antimony, and thermal batteries

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Hundred dollar bills.

Uncommon Wealth

On ‘precariously low’ oil stockpiles, China’s ammonia milestone, and a PFAS destroyer

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FCC Won’t Let Chinese Inverters Be

On nuclear waste, a Nevada solar farm, and lithium-harvesting nanorobots

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AM Briefing

‘The Hardest Since World War II’

On Yucca Mountain, Europe’s inverter boom, and Romanian offshore wind

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Current conditions: The wildfires in Spain and France are burning so hot they’re creating rare pyrocumulonimbus clouds • Hurricane Genevieve has strengthened into the first Category 5 storm of 2026 as the monster cyclone rampages across the open Pacific with no immediate destination to make landfall • A tornado in Wisconsin toppled power lines, cutting off electricity to nearly 350,000 people.

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1. Europe braces for another heat wave as France and Spain burn

Beachgoers on the shore of Lake Lacanau in southwest FranceMaximilien LAMY / AFP via Getty Images

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Adaptation

How to Use a Chatbot to Evacuate a City

Can AI help emergency managers make faster decisions when every second counts?

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Meteorologists had nothing polite to say about Tropical Storm Bertha. The “weak, disorganized, and lopsided” system made initial landfall in Louisiana last week as a “hot, sheared mess,” one that forecasters doubted would reach Texas with much oomph at all. Still, the Galveston County Consolidated Drainage District — the local flood mitigation and drainage management entity for the state’s most flood-prone county — had stood at the ready, posting updates on the storm’s progress to its Facebook feed in the lead-up.

There had been action behind the scenes, too. Since this spring, the county has relied on a new “AI-powered flood warning solution” pilot program to help local administrators identify the gaps in their understanding of the county’s flood risk and monitor rising water levels in real time. In a crisis, a chatbot could even advise them on when to issue an evacuation order.

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