What’s more important: Keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or solving the climate crisis?

It sounds like the stuff of sci-fi. Magnetic fields unleashed by a solar superstorm rip through the Earth’s magnetosphere, sending currents surging through human infrastructure. Aurora borealis unusually fill southern skies with shimmering blues and greens. We look up from our phones and computers to catch a glimpse, and the internet as we know it blinks out.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a state of disaster with immediate effect, as the country faced an acute electricity shortage

Moore County, North Carolina, has declared a state of emergency as power outages continue after a "deliberate" attack over the weekend in which gunfire damaged two substations. The attack left roughly 45,000 people without power in North Carolina.