Environment
Climate news, including natural resources, endangered species, sustainability and conservation in Chicago.
In all, 129,000 children, 68% of those 5 or younger, had lead in their home drinking water, a study found.
The Chicago area will experience a partial eclipse on April 8. Downstate, Carbondale will be in the path of totality, in which the view of the moon completely blocks the sun, for the second time in 10 years.
“This is what the community really asked for,” Ald. Walter Burnett said of improvements coming to Touhy-Herbert Park.
Illinois is meeting the state’s electricity demand now. But the need is there to ramp up renewable energy projects, here and across the nation. One reason: the growth of artificial intelligence, AI.
Illinois needs to join the partnership to build barriers and stop invasive carp from traveling from the Mississippi River Basin into the Great Lakes.
The addition of the long-abandoned and contaminated Acme Steel plant’s land to the government’s priority cleanup list offers hope of a conversion to a park or other place for recreation.
Burning gas in our homes for heating and cooking poses significant health risks, especially for Black and Brown communities, a Chicago pastor writes.
Fires sparked by batteries, plus a now-derailed plan to haul garbage downstate on a barge, show clearly: It’s time to be smarter about how communities dispose of their trash.
Forest preserve staff worked with Tinley Park firefighters Saturday to put down a brush fire at Bobolink Meadow Land and Water Reserve, putting the fire out by 5:30, a forest preserve spokesperson said.
Much of his art, often completed at his studio in Antioch, was inspired by trips to ancient and natural sites in the United States and Canada.
After three years of behind-the-scenes planning, trash hauler LRS scraps an idea to send waste down to Central Illinois from the Sanitary and Ship Canal.
The Chicago Bird Alliance is offering an internship from May to July to help with education efforts and public awareness of piping plovers on Montrose Beach.
Chicago reached 71 degrees Monday, breaking the previous record high for the date. Temperatures will begin to cool Tuesday evening with strong to severe storms expected. Snow is possible late Tuesday and early Wednesday. In other words, a typical run of Chicago weather.
Las acciones de Marlene Hopkins y el ex funcionario, Jorge Herrera, “constituyeron una mala administración pública”, según reporte.
Los funcionarios ambientales de Illinois reforzarán su supervisión de los contaminadores que estén estableciendo operaciones o expandiéndose.
After a four-year standoff, the governor’s deal with the U.S. EPA commits Illinois to weighing the likely environmental impact before allowing more polluting industry to move to low-income neighborhoods already burdened by environmental and social stresses.
Marlene Hopkins oversaw the 2020 Crawford plant demolition that coated the community in dust.
La demanda afirma que BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil y Shell han perjudicado a la Municipalidad desacreditando la ciencia mientras sus productos provocan “consecuencias catastróficas”.
The Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners votes to rename the Montrose Dune Expansion Area as the “Monty and Rose Wildlife Habitat” last week to honor the place where the two birds’ love story first started.