When undergraduate Devin Digman bought a 90s-era Kawasaki motorcycle earlier this year, he didn’t expect its purple and turquoise color scheme to bleed into other […]

Microbes are key to turning plants into liquid fuels. Yeasts and bacteria eat plant sugars, such as glucose, and turn them into alcohols, a process […]

If you closed your eyes — and maybe if David Bartling wasn’t trying to shout over the roar of harvesting machinery — you might guess […]

When you search Google for “family farms,” the dominant images served up show parents and their young children in bucolic agricultural settings, often walking together […]

Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases and cause more than 700,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. Diseases […]

The village of Walton, New York, faced a daunting task in 1972: It had to build a $5.8 million wastewater treatment plant with an annual […]

It’s a rare opportunity for the public to glimpse the original, handwritten notes and journals of an influential environmentalist, let alone one as renowned as Aldo […]

Hector DeLuca left his mark on the UW–Madison campus — literally. The professor emerit and former chair of biochemistry has three buildings that bear his name, […]

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to […]

Frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians are disappearing as fast as—or faster than—any other class of animals around the world, succumbing to a variety of […]