Climate Change News Digest for October 21, 2026

This digest provides a selection of recent news articles relating to climate change and other environmental issues. Click on the title to read the full article from its original source.

US voters want more action on global heating. Why are Democrats and Republicans staying silent?

Polls show that Democrats and Republicans in battleground states want to hear more from candidates about the climate crisis

By Oliver Milman (The Guardian)

Indigenous leaders have climate solutions. This group helps them get funding.

The Indigenous Earth Fund recently awarded $1 million to Native-led projects that aim to restore the planet.

by Bridgett Ennis (Yale Climate Connections)

A Rising Tide Lifted Floating Wind Turbines. Now Comes the Real Test.

International collaboration and government support made the technology possible. Those partnerships have been tested under the Trump Administration, but so far are surviving.

By Nathaniel Eisen (Inside Climate News)

U.S. Is an Outlier Among Rich Nations in Slowing Climate Progress, U.N. Data Says

The scientific report identifies the United States as an outlier among the nations responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions.

By Chico Harlan (New York Times)

UNEP: Opportunity has ‘been lost’ to meet 1.5C warming limit without ‘overshoot’

In its “sobering” annual assessment of the global “emissions gap”, UNEP says that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit is “imminent and unavoidable”.

By Daisy Dunne, Dr Giuliana Viglione, Robert McSweeney (Carbon Brief)

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