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Climate

The Puerto Rico water shortage.
AM Briefing

La Brega de Agua

On Hungary’s BYD scandal, seawater uranium, and saving styrofoam

Climate

Orange Skies Are Back

Where is the smoke worst, where will it go next, and what causes that color?

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Climate

Why Heat Waves Are Tricky Killers

Deciding what counts as a heat death is more difficult than it sounds.

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PJM Maxes Out

On America’s thorium progress, Google’s solar buy, and Chinese nuclear

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Fujairah.

Dubai Bypass

On American nuclear, a labor union record, and climate tech’s resurgence

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Grand Escalante.

Monumental Change

On fusion’s record year, nuclear satellites, and Chilean copper

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AM Briefing

False Summit

On the India-Australia uranium deal, a U.S. general’s warning, and Chicago’s VPP

Power lines.
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Current conditions: China and Taiwan are bracing for Super Typhoon Bavi to make landfall as possibly the strongest storm either country has faced in years • Utah’s Babylon fire has torched at least 103,000 acres already, and was just 25% contained as of this morning • New York City faces flooding as the thunderstorms that began yesterday continue into Saturday.

THE TOP FIVE

1. PJM shatters its demand record

Here comes the sun.PJM

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A Global Nuclear Renaissance

On Trump’s mineral paradox, China’s Great Green Wall, and sodium-ion batteries

A reactor under construction.
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Current conditions: After devastating the U.S. island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands territory, Super Typhoon Bavi is barreling toward Taiwan with winds of up to 200 miles per hour • Rare tornadoes brought on by storms touched down in China’s Hubei province, leaving 11 dead • Temperatures in Madrid are hovering at around 100 degrees Fahrenheit all week as the Spanish capital roasts in Europe’s latest heat wave.

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1. Oil prices shoot up again as U.S. ceasefire with Iran abruptly ends

Exactly three weeks after President Donald Trump signed a formal memorandum to halt the bombing campaign against Iran that the United States and Israel embarked on nearly five months ago, the war is back on. After Washington accused Tehran of launching missiles at tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz this week, Trump officially declared the resumption of combat. Speaking Wednesday morning at the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump called the Iranian regime “scum,” “sick people,” and “vicious, violent people” when asked about the peace pact during a press conference. “If they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it,” Trump said. “So as far as I’m concerned, it’s over.” He spent the rest of the day posting more than a dozen videos and photos on his Truth Social account purportedly showing U.S. missile strikes in Iran. “This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran,” Trump wrote in one post. “If it happens again, it will get much worse!”

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