Chicago Riverwalk Flooding Is a Climate Change Reminder
An important, if unintended, benefit of the Riverwalk is that it allows Chicagoans to see how one of the systems their city is built around has failed....
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Striking Images Tell of Chicago's Petcoke Problem
One of Terry Evans' powerful aerial photos from the Chicago Magazine gallery, used with permission via screenshot. We have spent a lot of time talking about...
Keystone XL Pipeline Pushers Sorta Threaten to Rain Fire on Chicago, But Have Oil Train Issue Wrong
Tanker cars are a common site in Chicago. I photographed the ones above while taking my son sledding in Ping Tom Park just south of downtown a few months back...
Dr. Evil Says We Are Big Green Radicals...
Believe it or not, lots of us at NRDC read the Wall Street Journal every day. So, imagine our shock when we saw a full page ad calling us out as job-destroying...
VICE Takes on Chicago's Petcoke Problem
If its not on your radar, Vice Magazine is has created an edgy $1.4 billion media empire . Beyond their print magazine and big social media footprint, they...
Climate Change in Chicago: Startling Images of the River Darkening Lake Michigan
One of the things that beguiles people about climate change is that they cannot see it in their day to day. But some striking images made their way into my...