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 ...

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 assessment builds on a 2019 report published by the Environmental Law and Policy Center and conducted by a team of ...

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

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 ...

Chicago is sinking due to underground climate change, study finds 03:18. There's a "silent hazard" threatening the future of major cities. A new study found that the ground underneath major cities ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

ABC 7, Chicago's No. 1 station for news, presented a virtual town hall examining the impact of climate change and significant weather events on our environment.

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 ...