The 739 deaths in 1995 was the deadliest weather event in Illinois history and redefined Chicago’s emergency response and ...

Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the ...

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Only many days after the start of the heat wave would the magnitude of the tragedy begin to sink in, as newspaper articles and nightly news reports tallied hundreds of deaths across Chicago. As ...

As the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill made its way toward congressional approval last month, U.S. Catholic bishops signed ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that areas surrounding Chicago—specifically in northern ...

Climate change is causing Earth’s atmosphere to get warmer, and warmer air can absorb a lot more water. All that water builds up into clouds until it releases as a major storm, sometimes dumping ...

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

Texas. North Carolina. Illinois. New Mexico. Flash flooding has surged into the spotlight in the last week with record-breaking flood events occurring nearly back-to-back across the country. Here’s ...

While wealthy coastal counties bear the brunt of landfalling storms, poor residents in inland counties are navigating an even ...