Stung by the party’s sweeping losses in November and desperate to win back working-class voters, the Democratic Party is in retreat on climate change. Nowhere is that retrenchment more jarring than in the nation’s most populous state, a longtime bastion of progressive politics on the environment.

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.

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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Voters must prove their citizenship by providing various documents – but in rural Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, a lack of record-keeping could see millions taken off the electoral roll. N

An international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels says it told the government after the election it would have to quit the group if it re-started looking for new oil and gas, contradicting what the climate change minister told the media.

Green Jobs PAC, which helped defeat an initiative that would've repealed Washington's climate law, failed to disclose donors until after the November election.

The United Kingdom’s third party believes green policy is the way to hoover up Tory voters. LONDON — The Liberal Democrats — the third-biggest party in the U.K. parliament — reckon they have found a winning political formula.

Four months ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election, the Ivorian diaspora is mobilising in Paris, and calling for democratic and inclusive elections.