Environmental advocates, elected leaders and workers at the Environmental Protection Agency gathered at Federal Plaza ...

As climate change warms average global temperatures, hailstones larger than pingpong or golf balls will become more frequent ...

As climate change warms average global temperatures, hailstones larger than pingpong or golf balls will become more frequent — likely worsening the weather hazard’s already billions of dollars in ...

A new report details how getting involved can make an impact — and how community-based strategies can significantly reduce ...

Young climate activists from Chicago called on Gov. JB Pritzker to enact legislation that would make the fossil fuel industry — instead of taxpayers — responsible for funding green, resilient ...

Stacker compiled statistics about how people in Chicago feel about climate change using data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Other than climate-change deniers, no one is saying such things won’t happen eventually. Chicago and the entire country indisputably are getting warmer, especially over the past 20 years.

The first is that addressing climate change needs to be viewed through a strategic lens rather than as an altruistic act or ...

Is climate migration beginning to reach Illinois? We know the panicked headlines were wrong: The Chicago area, in particular, and Illinois, overall, is modestly gaining, not losing, population ...

Curiously, there are no big plans—although there is, to be sure, an “action plan.”Published in 2008, under Mayor Richard M. Daley, it laid out several strategies for combating climate change ...

And the city’s climate has been getting warmer, according to the 2008 Climate Change and Chicago report. It noted that temperatures have risen by at least 2.6 Fahrenheit since 1980, ...