Many areas got more than an inch of rain by Friday afternoon, and water management crews were keeping a close eye on levels at area stormwater storage systems.

Global warming is worsening droughts, making sea levels rise, and fueling deadly storms. Now scientists have a new problem to ...

Oak Park expects to receive $500,000 from the Illinois Department of Human Services to help support the Cross-Community Climate Collaborative, or C4’s, youth leadership program.

Winters are getting warmer and shorter as the climate changes. That's helping rat populations grow in several U.S. cities.

Springfield lawmakers will hash out a plan to move solar and wind projects forward after sluggish growth for clean power in Illinois and a recent rise in coal and natural gas demand.

The potential risks from a major wildfire have been well known for years, but there was little appetite to solve those ...

Springfield lawmakers will hash out a plan to move solar and wind projects forward after sluggish growth for clean power in ...

I am a member of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. I am writing to express my outrage at President Donald Trump’s focus on mass deportations of immigrants, closing of the southern border and use ...

Nonprofits of all sizes are now grappling with how these changes will impact their missions — with some even stepping in to ...

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to ...