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 annual property damage across the country, according to a study published last year in the scientific journal npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

The Illinois EPA said it reviewing the proposal to rescind the declaration issued back in 2009 under President Barack Obama.

During severe thunderstorms, rising air shoots icy pellets the size of Dippin’ Dots ice cream into the bitter cold of upper atmospheric layers. There, supercooled water freezes onto the small particles to form hail,

Climate change is warming the world above and below ground, and what's happening below could be causing the world's cities to slowly sink, a new study suggests.

Our goal is to level-set where we are today on climate change and to begin to explore actions we could take together. We'll then reconvene next spring in Chicago for a full-fledged summit.

Cities such as Chicago with access to bodies of fresh water are set to fare better with climate change and as a result will see migration increases, said Vasquez, the committee’s chair. “As we ...

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, and above ...

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.

Despite decades of evidence about the dangers of climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it wants to repeal its landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases pose a public threat.