Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a present and escalating crisis that affects every corner of the globe.

Last Saturday’s storm started near Bloomington, Illinois, before traveling northeastward. It was the first such storm of this ...

According to the National Weather Service, the last time a dust storm affected Chicago was on May 31, 1985. Newspaper ...

But, while sudden dust storms can be dangerous, the lesser known harms lie in the windswept particles themselves — with the Chicago dust storm likely to contain lead, farm chemicals and ...

Trump continues to win the information war and Democrats, the media and the American people are left overwhelmed ...

The Field Museum’s Sue the T. rex, a 67-million-year-old fossil of a Tyrannosaurus rex, has drawn thousands of visitors since ...

"A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn," wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of "The Grapes of Wrath," his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

A deadly severe weather outbreak spawned at least one tornado in 22 states from May 15-21. Among the hardest-hit states were ...

Haboobs, another term for intense dust storms, can occur anywhere in the U.S., but are most common in the Southwest.Dusty El Paso, Texas, has seen 10 just this year, according to Inside Climate ...

Tuesday and Wednesday look to remain cool, with a low-pressure center bringing the potential for rain and soggy conditions ...