Glaciers in the Alps and around the world are retreating faster and faster. The consequences of melting glaciers are being felt not only in Switzerland, but all over the planet. The UN ...

The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

Researchers from England's University of Leeds have used satellite images to mark glacier melt at 11,000 square miles in three decades, for example. "Warmer temperatures are linked to the land cover ...

After thousands of submissions, 10 finalists and nearly 385,000 votes, the state of Illinois may not have a new flag after all. "The results are, let's just say, overwhelming," Illinois Secretary ...

The people of Illinois have spoken, and they overwhelmingly favor retaining the current state flag. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced the results of the state flag ...

Some departments in Illinois have missed out on $1.88 billion in federal funds since late January, when that office directed federal agencies to "temporarily pause" certain financial assistance.

Looking strictly at wins and losses – which are, of course, the only two things that matter at the end of the day – Illinois and No. 15 Michigan stand in two different worlds. The Illini ...

A team of scientists have discovered that Arctic glaciers are leaking significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. In their analysis, the scientists found that glacial ...

Glaciers serve as the largest reservoirs of frozen freshwater on Earth. They primarily form when massive ice sheets from the Arctic and Antarctic break into smaller sections. Additionally ...

Between 2000 and 2023, relatively small glaciers (excluding those in Antarctica and Greenland) lost about 5% of their volume—equating to 273 billion tonnes of ice annually, more than double the loss ...

A Curtin University research team uncovered evidence that these massive glaciers acted like giant geological bulldozers. The findings, published in Geology, revealed that as they scraped deep into ...