Scott Collis News Today

We've seen our share of severe weather disasters in Chicago, from extreme flooding to extreme heat and air quality issues in summer 2023.

The city may not see temperatures above freezing for another week — but it could reach 20 degrees Thursday.

St Patrick's College has unveiled a major sporting alliance with Liverpool Football Club, offering top-level soccer coaching and training to aspiring players.

St Patrick's College has unveiled a major sporting alliance with Liverpool Football Club, offering top-level soccer coaching and training to aspiring players.

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2023 - It was a hazy August day on Chicagos South Side, and Nedra Sims Fears was hosting a small gathering to talk about the air. Interstate-94, which bisects her Chatham neighborhood, hummed nearby.

Scientists from Chicago State University and Argonne National Laboratory launched a plan Tuesday to place 21 sensors across the city in the next five years that will allow them to study the effects of recent and future severe weather on historically under-resourced communities. “Here’s the thing: We’re just getting started. No one’s done this before, so we don’t know what we’re going to see,” ...

Scientists from Chicago State University and Argonne National Laboratory launched a plan Tuesday to place 21 sensors across the city in the next five years that will allow them to study the effects of recent and future severe weather on historically under-resourced communities. “Here’s the thing: We’re just getting started. No one’s done this before, so we don’t know what we’re going to see,” ...

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory say they want to help understand perennial flooding as well as climate-related bad air quality and extreme heat.

Canadian wildfires ”are going to burn all summer and into the fall. We might be under the gun again,” one expert says. But an Argonne National Laboratory scientist sounds a hopeful note on climate change: “We can do something about it. It is a result of our actions.”

Attracting more engineers, especially those from underrepresented groups, into graduate school and guiding them toward eventual employment with the national labs is the goal of a new consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Minority...