Alphabet Inc. agreed to fund capacity increases at two nuclear plants operated by a Southern Co. subsidiary that will add about 96 megawatts of new supplies amid a data center-driven jump in electricity demand. Alphabet’s Google will finance so-called uprates at the Vogtle and Hatch nuclear plants in Georgia via a new tariff, according to …
The catastrophic mountain flooding in Nepal that killed more than 1,300 people was driven by a complex web of climate and seismic processes that made it nearly impossible to predict, according to an international team of scientists. Rising global temperatures thawed permafrost and thinned glaciers along the Langtang Lirung peak in the Nepalese Himalayas, which, …