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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.
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.
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 ...
Climate change, migrant safety among factors in Chicago winter preps 02:40. CHICAGO (CBS) -- There was no snow on the ground this mid-November, but full preparation has been launched for a more ...
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 ...
But the largely man-made influx where asylum-seekers have been sent from Texas to cities like Chicago is likely “only going to be the beginning,” of migrant movements as climate concerns ...
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.
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.
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 ...