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 ...

A country that doesn’t allow citizens to criticize their leaders is not a democracy. It’s not where liberty or justice ...

A warmer atmosphere can hold more water, which makes it more likely moisture-laden clouds will drop rainfall bombs when they ...

The report is an update to a 2019 report examining the effects of climate change on the lakes themselves and surrounding region. Despite the discouraging tendency these days to see ...

The researchers have been tracking the heat, and the way it impacts parts of the city differently, in a brand-new way that could ultimately provide relief for some Chicagoans.

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

CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson was watching the news during the worst heat wave in her city’s history when she learned that a man she ...

Chicago experienced a rare, but not unprecedented, flash flood Tuesday night in what some forecasters described as a "one-in-500-year event." ...

Judges with the United Nations’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right.