Jenny Whidden – Daily Herald Media Group

When you pick up fresh pork chops from behind the glass at Mariano’s, you can be sure the product came from a farm that does not use gestation crates — metal enclosures so small the pigs kept in them can’t turn around.

The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County's green areas now sequester more carbon than its operations create, effectively serving as a carbon sink

As electric vehicle charging networks are taking shape across the country and in Illinois, state Sen. Dan McConchie wants to ensure the infrastructure is accessible to all drivers.

With climate change making warm winters like this year’s more likely, Dr. Rachna Shah of the Chicago area's Loyola Medicine Allergy Count said long-term trends indicate allergy season is starting earlier and lasting longer.

As the rare dual emergence of the 13- and 17-year periodical cicada broods approaches, experts say some trees and shrubs might need protection ahead of the once-in-a-lifetime event.

When suburban farmer Cliff McConville teaches kids about his farm on the Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Carpentersville, where grass-fed cows, pigs and chickens roam freely across 150 acres of pasture, he hopes he’s inspiring not only future consumers but future farmers.

It’s official – this past February finished as Chicago’s warmest February on record, with the average temperature ending up over 10 degrees above normal, the National Weather Service Chicago reported.

The Chicago area is closing out what could be its warmest February ever, and the signs are clear: Trees are leafing out, once-dormant plants are peeking up through the ground and pollen counts are going up.

A policy that would hold packaging producers responsible for the full life cycle of their products could triple Illinois’ recycling rate, according to a recent study from The Recycling Partnership — but there’s a long way to go to make it happen.

A Glen Ellyn couple helps fund solar projects to combat climate change

The planet is warming to record levels, yet here in the Chicago area we're experiencing the same brutal cold snaps we're known for.

Eyes are on state legislation that would realize the Great Lakes’ first offshore wind farm — in Chicago.

Five Midwestern states – Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin – are lagging behind other states when it comes to renewable energy, a new study from environmental organization The Nature Conservancy reports.

After seven years in the making, the state of Illinois has unveiled the monarch butterfly decal license plate.

Legislation awaiting the governor’s signature would lift Illinois’ nuclear ban beginning in 2026 – but only for reactors that have an output of 300 megawatts or less.