From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.
The summer we love is slipping away
From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.
By Grist staff
Sep 3, 2026
Topic
Why the changing seasons remind us that growth begins when we stop resisting change
Cities sweltering and the smell of the middle ages: has the climate crisis killed Instagram’s Euro summer? | Brigid Delaney
Sayonara summer. US daylight is fading fast again
The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
How scorched Europe dropped its fight against climate change
Why the 'great Aussie summer' may become a thing of the past
This has been a childhood-defining summer, one that dried out the earth under your feet
Summertime, the dreamy ideal of lazy days, is fading
Climate change is making it increasingly hard to have fun in the sun—and the leading fossil fuel corporations have long known…
For generations, summer in Europe has been languid and dreamy, bringing fine weather and lengthy days on sunny beaches and…
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
The early onslaught of pumpkin-spice products can make it easy to forget what’s so special about the season we’re in now.
Smoky summers are becoming the new normal across the American West, forcing a generation of children to grow up indoors.
