A Texas oil company’s bid to revive long-idled drilling platforms off the Santa Barbara coast is faltering amid mounting lawsuits, regulatory setbacks, and financial strain.
A deluge that dumped more than 12% of of Kolkata's annual rainfall in a single day left the city flooded, revealing how climate change–driven extreme weather and a crumbling drainage system are straining India’s urban infrastructure.
Climate change has helped make the small Japanese town of Yoichi the toast of Pinot Noir connoisseurs. But farmers fret that recent rapid gains in temperatures and potentially more rain during harvesting could mean it will become difficult to grow the grape here.
Extreme heat can exacerbate the impacts of some toxics on the kidneys, according to a University of Arizona study published this month in the journal Environmental Research.
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns.
