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Mike Masellis, Brookfield Zoo's lead animal care specialist for aquatics, holds a Puerto Rican crested toad at the zoo in Brookfield, May 13, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Bad Bunny champions endangered Puerto Rican toad, gives Brookfield Zoo’s conservation efforts a boost

June 12, 2025 at 12:21 p.m.

A chatty amphibian starring in videos for Bad Bunny's recent album has launched the Puerto Rican crested toad into newfound fame, following years of quiet, collaborative conservation efforts involving Chicago's...

The northern lights are visible above the Avondale neighborhood in Chicago on Oct. 10, 2024. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Despite hopes, northern lights were not visible in Illinois Sunday night as severe geomagnetic solar storm subsided

June 2, 2025 at 2:50 p.m.

No reports of northern lights visible from Chicago-area skies had come in by Monday, according to Chicago Astronomer Joe Guzman.

People working in Arjan Mann’s laboratory with the Field Museum and the Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois look for fossils at a Mazon Creek fossil bed, which used to be the location of a Peabody Energy mine, May 8, 2025, in Braceville, Illinois. The fossils can be found in the spoil tip, or pile of waste material, from the underground mine. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

The world’s best-preserved fossils are right outside Chicago. But there are no dinosaur bones at Mazon Creek.

May 26, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world's best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Esmeralda Garcia chants with other protesters as they stand across the Chicago River from Trump Tower after a Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression demonstration at Federal Plaza on May 25, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

5 years after killing of George Floyd, protest in Chicago decries Trump directive to empower police

May 26, 2025 at 7:33 a.m.

Chicago joined coordinated protests across the country on Sunday against rollbacks on diversity, equity and inclusion — particularly an executive order aimed at strengthening state and local law enforcement.

A crew from the water quality nonprofit Current sets equipment to monitor the bacteria levels in the Chicago River under the DuSable Bridge on May 16, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Chicago and Calumet rivers ‘pretty clean,’ report shows ahead of Memorial Day Weekend

May 23, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

High caution readings were found on 23 days last summer with only four corresponding with sewer system overflows, water quality testing shows.

NHRA top fuel drivers Clay Millican, left, and Tony Stewart race as a dust storm approaches the track during qualifying for the Route 66 Nationals at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet on May 16, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

Rare Chicago dust storm reignites debates over the role of agriculture, experts say

May 20, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust...

Una hembra de chorlito playero, conocida
como Searocket, camina cerca del lago Michigan en la playa
Montrose el 10 de mayo de 2025. (Robert Loerzel/para el baiduhai)

Después de reunirse en Chicago, los chorlitos playeros Searocket e Imani ponen el primer huevo de su nido

May 19, 2025 at 12:16 p.m.

Despues de reunirse el fin de semana pasado, los chorlitos playeros de Chicago Searocket e Imani no perdieron tiempo y el domingo pusieron su primer huevo en el nido

Imani the piping plover, son of Monty and Rose, walks near Montrose Beach in Chicago on May 11, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Piping plover pair Searocket and Imani lay first egg of the season at Montrose Beach

May 18, 2025 at 5:53 p.m.

This marks the second breeding season for Searocket and Imani — the son of local celebrities Monty and Rose,

Activists attend a rally urging the Canadian government to shut down Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline on Oct. 23, 2024, in Chicago. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Tribes fear consequences for Great Lakes as Trump administration fast-tracks Line 5 pipeline

May 18, 2025 at 7:37 p.m.

Aging infrastructure poses a risk to the drinking water of tens of millions, activists and Indigenous communities say.

After weekslong wait, piping plover Searocket returns to Chicago and partner Imani for the summer

May 12, 2025 at 3:09 p.m.

Three weeks after Imani — son of beloved piping plover pair Monty and Rose — returned to his summering spot on Montrose Beach, his partner, Searocket, has joined him.

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