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 ...

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

As climate change warms average global temperatures, hailstones larger than pingpong or golf balls will become more frequent — likely worsening the weather hazard’s already billions of dollars in ...

Experts predict climate change will make winter shorter and spring longer; both will be warmer in the Midwest. Longer springs are already having devastating effects on bee populations in Chicago.

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

Climate change has already brought migrants and other newcomers to Chicago, including disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Maria in 2017, said Dulce Guzmán, deputy director ...

And the city’s climate has been getting warmer, according to the 2008 Climate Change and Chicago report. It noted that temperatures have risen by at least 2.6 Fahrenheit since 1980, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

But Chicago has a problem, one that’s almost certainly caused by the forces that climate change has released. A balance has long existed between the city’s two great bodies of water, Lake ...

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.