This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tuesday was a great day at the ballot box for the planet, with climate-friendly initiatives and candidates winning nationwide.

The big wins by Democrats in Tuesday’s elections across the US turned into a rallying cry at an environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro.

Democratic election wins last week reignited arguments on how — or if — candidates should discuss climate change on the campaign trail.

Mikie Sherrill launched her successful New Jersey campaign with a promise to freeze utility bills and accelerate solar power in the state.

At the America First Policy Institute’s Global Energy Summit, speakers derided climate action and heralded their efforts to reverse key environmental initiatives.

Not only are the impacts of climate change ever more obvious over the past year—last week alone two people died in floods in New York City, while a new report estimates extreme heat kills one person per minute worldwide—but increasingly,

We are hurtling toward climate chaos,” writes an international team of 13 leading climate scientists in their “ State of the Climate Report ” for 2025, published by the Oxford journal BioScience, an annual must-read for anyone who wants a concise and accessible snapshot of deepening catastrophe.

Zohran Mamdani will need to enforce the city’s building decarbonization law, enact his green school policy and handle the climate change-related issues residents often face—like flooding and extreme heat.