● Facilities that turn seawater into drinking water were bombed over the weekend in Bahrain and Iran as the conflict in the Middle East escalates to include public utilities.

● Dozens of people have died in floodwaters in Nairobi, Kenya, after more than four inches of rain fell on the capital in just 24 hours.

● North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality has rejected a federal project to widen Cape Fear amid concerns that the effort will worsen PFAS contamination.

● A new study suggests that “compound extreme” weather events in which severe heat waves precede droughts are becoming increasingly common across the globe.