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

Months past a federal deadline, more than 90% of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.

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.

Scientists say human activity is changing the planet’s climate faster than at any point in modern civilization, heralding costly and, in some cases, life-threatening consequences in every reg… ...

In the winter season, Chicago gets an average 28.1 inches of snowfall and has an average temperature of 26.4°F, but the wind from Lake Michigan can sometimes make it feel like it’s colder than Siberia ...

The change in ocean temperatures during Helene and Milton were 800 times more likely due to climate change, according to Climate Central. Hotter ocean temperatures fuel more intense storms, more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.