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

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.

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

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.

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.

As Chicago continues to battle an historic late-season heat wave, the city is apparently being considered one of the best U.S. cities to live in to escape the worst effects of climate change.

In Chicago, climate change means more extreme heat and the potential for stronger and more concentrated storms, which is why the neighborhood-level research CROCUS is doing is so important.

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 ...

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 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.