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 ...

How development is making underground climate change worse. In cities worldwide, heat from buildings and underground transportation causes the ground to warm at an alarming rate, by as much as 2.5 ...

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.

Chicago will soon release a climate action plan — a comprehensive look at the effects of climate change in the city, and actions to address it. It will be an update to a plan Chicago released in ...

The figures are in and 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded for Chicago, for the U.S., and across the globe. The eight warmest years for the U.S. have all occurred since 2012. It turns out more ...

Climate change is also a concern for those studying wildfires in the United States, like Abatzoglou, who said the West is entering “prime fire season.” “So far, it has been very, very quiet ...

Humanity is at an inflection point. I think we all agree that a livable climate, clean air, clean and accessible water, and thriving and biodiverse ecosystems are priceless. All too often, however ...

It wasn’t the deadliest domestic tragedy prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as Rep. Sean Casten asserted in arguing for more climate change action.

The South Chicago farm is a world of vibrant green. Tomato plants stretch toward the sun, next to neat rows of herbs and a small herd of goats. Butterflies flit between towering sunflowers. Owned ...

How climate change has affected each state | While these impacts are weather-related — for example, heat waves, droughts, or storms — individual weather events cannot be attributed to climate ...