Environment

In Chicago's Avondale neighborhood, a group of volunteers is busy preparing the soil for this year's Mindful Living Garden on Drake Street. 

Trump signed executive orders hoping to boost the coal industry amid a surging demand for electricity in the U.S. Here’s a look at how coal energy stacks up.

A new directive from the Trump administration will open up more logging in national forests.

Reports of vehicles mysteriously coated in dirt ranged from St. Louis and Missouri, through Illinois and even as far away as Charleston, West Virginia.

This summer, Chicago will be the new host of the Aspen Ideas Climate Summit, Gov. JB Pritzker announced.

Trump has made several suggestions this week of ways to redraw the map. Here’s what to know about his interest in Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and the “Gulf of America.”

Former President Jimmy Carter will be widely remembered as a champion of conservation, but perhaps fewer know just how much he did to preserve his home state of Georgia and beyond.

As the holiday season ends, many people are looking for ways to properly dispose of their Christmas trees.

The holidays are a time for fun, but it can also result in excess waste that can affect the environment and here are some eco-friendly options to consider.

The new study suggested that 4 million seabirds died following unusually warm conditions in the northeastern Pacific Ocean between 2014 and 2016.

The emperor penguin, dubbed Gus, had somehow swam over 2,000 miles from his icy home and was found on a sun-drenched beach in Denmark, Western Australia, earlier this month.

Halloween has ended, and it's time to dispose of leftover pumpkins. But what’s the best way to do so in the Chicago area?

Pumpkins are not native to the local ecosystem and can have a negative impact.