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.

When it comes to government, there are few things more unattractive than nakedly partisan power politics, as reflected by a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...