The Latest Breaking News from the Upper Midwest

Chicago’s industrial wetlands were written off for decades, but scientists found a large colony of endangered black-crowned night herons nesting there

For most of the twentieth century, the marshland tucked into Chicago's Calumet region was treated as little more than industrial leftover space, a stretch of land scarred by heavy manufacturing, solid waste dumping and decades of altered water flow. Few people expected anything to thrive there. Yet buried among the…

The Times of India · Aug 11

Severe storms pummel parts of US with snow and high winds and raise tornado threat

A severe weather front sweeping across much of the eastern half of the U.S. has dumped heavy snow around the Upper Midwest, spawned thunderstorms in the South and is threatening several mid-Atlantic states with heavy rain and possible tornadoes

The Independent UK · Mar 16

Powerful storms make their way across US bringing everything from tornados to snow

Several airports felt the impact from the severe weather with flight delays and cancelations

The Independent UK · Mar 15

Snowmelt leads to heavy flooding from Southwest to Rockies

A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing residents there and in the Upper Midwest to stock up on sandbags amid surging creeks and rivers

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2023

Tornadoes Kill at Least 11 Across US Midwest and South

Tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest killed at least 11 people, collapsed the roof of a packed theater during a heavy metal concert in Illinois, and left small towns and big cities throughout the region bewildered Saturday by the damage. Possibly dozens of tornadoes touched down…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 1, 2023