Climate Change

ASPEN, Colo. — Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, defended data centers, touted oil and gas rules and bemoaned climate change in a recent interview in this mountain town.Why it matters: Colorado has long been a microcosm of the nation's debates on energy, AI and the effects of a warming planet.Polis...Read…

The city’s primary winners campaigned on affordability, yet climate change, a major driver of rising costs and inequality, was conspicuously absent from the conversation. Progressive New York primary winner Darializa Avila Chevalier did not include climate action on her list of priorities. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) On June…

A Paris official is facing backlash after blaming widespread American usage of air conditioning for Europe’s deadly heat wave instead of addressing the continent’s chronic lack of cooling infrastructure.    Socialist Audrey Pulvar, Paris’ deputy mayor for international relations, lashed out after American tourists and commentators mocked France’s lack of…

This story is a collaboration between Grist and 9 Millones , an independent news network that amplifies Puerto Rican voices. The videos and photography in this story were supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project . Lee este artículo en español​ aquí. ​​ Tomás Ayala leaps off the…

A new worldwide study has found that fear of climate change as a 'very' or 'somewhat' serious threat has risen to three quarters (75%) for the first time 14:05, Mon, Jun 29, 2026 Updated: 14:13, Mon, Jun 29, 2026 Worldwide fears of climate change have reached an all time high…

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Temperatures hit record highs from Switzerland to the Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark on Saturday, as a heat wave that baked western European countries this week moves to central and eastern parts of the continent. Unusually high temperatures were recorded even in the Nordic countries not known for sweltering summers.…

Plants, insects, and larger animals, like the forest’s white-faced capuchin monkeys, are well adapted to these changes. But in 2015, during an abnormally severe drought influenced by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Perry , an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, observed behaviors that once seemed impossible.…

Avian influenza represents an existential threat to Australia's native duck population, according to Birdlife Australia waterbird scientists. The H5N1 virus could potentially put further pressure on the 15 indigenous duck species already menaced by habitat degradation, urban sprawl and mistaken identity by hunters. Two migratory seabirds — a northern giant…