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.

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

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

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.

Environmental advocates, elected leaders and workers at the Environmental Protection Agency gathered at Federal Plaza downtown Monday to push back against the president’s reported plans to repeal a key federal determination that allows the EPA to help combat climate change.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Climate change, heat waves, and mortality projections for Chicago, Journal of Great Lakes Research, Aug. 21, 2009 Email: Donald Wuebbles, professor of atmospheric science at the University of ...

The Trump administration proposed tossing out the landmark 2009 “endangerment finding” that allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. Greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and methane cause climate change,