In short, Ned, your recollection that late spring/early summer in Chicago was reliably warm when you were a kid is on the money.

What would have happened to Chicago if the river was never reversed? And how do you make amends for the damage done to it over a century ago?

For 31-year-old Erin Claudio, a health and recreation instructor at Northeastern Illinois University, the saying “one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure” hits close to home.

The Obama administration's long-awaited scientific report on the sweeping and life-altering consequences of a failure to act on global warming – Global climate change impacts in the United States

A recent report revealed that toilet usage has been a contributing factor in fertilizing algae in the Gulf of Mexico that eventually harms the environment in that area.