Heat and other climate impacts like floods and storms affect voters, candidates and poll workers in different ways at different times, and can even tip election results, researchers and officials report.

The July 2024 general election saw a major shift in the UK’s approach to tackling climate change. The incoming Labour government made ambitious pledges to cut emissions and switch to green energy, with a target of “clean power” by 2030 and support for on and offshore wind.

As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference votes in the Democratic primary election.

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Green Jobs PAC, which helped defeat an initiative that would've repealed Washington's climate law, failed to disclose donors until after the November election.

Aduthurai, has reaffirmed the potential of non-puddled machine transplanting (NPMTR) as a climate-smart, cost-efficient alternative to conventional puddled rice cultivation — reducing water, fuel, energy,

The government wants to host the 2026 COP summit in Adelaide. It should pay attention to the climate disaster unfolding there now.

As many EU member states have been hit by a severe heat wave over the past days, few EU leaders came out to link them to climate change, something which they probably would have done a few years ago. In the 2024 European Parliament elections, the cost of living, economic issues and international events became the top reasons for people to vote.

Philanthropists are free to donate to the other side of the world if that’s where the impact will be the greatest, while governments have a primary responsibility to their constituents.

Gov. JB Pritzker announced his running mate today for his re-election campaign, former Deputy Governor Christian Mitchell. Mitchell will serve as Lieutenant Governor, following current Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton's move to run for U.S. Senate, if Pritzker wins re-election.

At least 244 people were killed and 265 hurt in BARMM during the last election period, including 103 deaths linked to the polls, Climate Conflict Action Asia reports

A political committee that helped defeat last year’s ballot measure to repeal a Washington climate law was fined $20,000 on Thursday for not disclosing how it spent $1 million until after the election.