Articles by Reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey is a Grist reporter covering the intersection of climate change, policy, politics, and culture. She was previously the 2024-2025 climate news reporting fellow at Grist, and a 2025-2026 reporting fellow on the New York Times climate desk. Her work has also appeared in The Nation, The Japan Times, Atmos and others, and she has made guest appearances on PBS Newsweekend, Radiolab, and The Weather Channel.
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This county has an ambitious climate agenda. That’s not easy in Florida.
Alachua County is preparing for a more dangerous future, even if the state government won't say "climate."
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![an african american person holds a sign up in the middle of a crowd of people. The sign is a fabric banner that says TRUMP: CLIMATE CRIMINAL.. Behind her is a blurry background showing a man in a hat at a podium and an audience with their phones out looking away from the podium.]()
Where did all the climate voters go?
Michigan and other battleground states might have swung for Trump, but they elected environmentalists to U.S. Senate seats, too.
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It’s already official: You’re living through the hottest year on record
According to the European Union's climate agency, 2024 is also the first year to breach a key climate threshold.
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Scientists found a new ally in the fight to clean up CO2 emissions: ‘Chonkus’
A newly discovered bacterium could help humans deal with climate change — if scientists can figure out how to crack open its DNA.
