Environment

Don’t dump your pumpkins, Will County Forest Preserve says

An environmental group maintaining remnant prairies in Whiteside County is looking for homeowners and land owners to create 'prairie island habitats' to help native prairie plants and other species.

The grim toll of the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has become more apparent as authorities in Canada, Washington state and Oregon say they’re investigating hundreds of deaths likely caused by extreme temperatures

As the Pacific Northwest swelters in an unprecedented heat wave, an electrical utility in the Washington state city of has announced that there will be more rolling blackouts that will cut off electricity and air conditioning

Scientists say the annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone: 50% higher than when the industrial age began

The legislation would increase the state fee for disposing demolition debris in quarry sites