US voters hit hardest by climate crisis: ‘I need politicians to care about this’

The devastating effects of climate change are motivating how voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections

Across the US, temperature records tumbled in a summer of heatwaves, enormous floods drowned entire towns and, in the west, an ongoing drought is now so severe that corpses are being uncovered in rapidly drying reservoirs.

Despite these increasingly ominous signs, the climate crisis has struggled to gain much visibility in the lead-up to next week's midterm elections. Many voters are more focused on things like inflation, understandably, because people are struggling to get by in this economy," said Geoffrey Henderson, an expert in climate policy at Duke University.