Americans are demanding cleaner lakes, beaches, and rivers. In survey after survey, people rank water quality as the environmental issue that worries them the most. […]

Across the globe, human activity has led to the rapid decrease in biodiversity. In just over five decades, one-third of all bird life has vanished […]

The next time you’re looking for a new recipe to cook, you can ask a scientist. Lab Culture Recipes is a new cookbook that combines […]

The quality of land on Native American reservations is often considered poor. These regions, where the U.S. government relocated tribes in the mid- to late-1800s […]

Brian Fox, the Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tinkers with the way living things use chemistry to turn […]

The Department of Genetics recently received approval from UW–Madison’s University Academic Planning Council to launch a new certificate focused on genetics in a modern world. […]

It’s like the ultimate sleepover with the grandparents: ice cream for breakfast, a behind-the-scenes tour of Camp Randall Stadium, and then an afternoon of bug […]

We’ve all heard the warning: Don’t microwave your food in plastic containers. It’s one recommendation aimed at reducing exposure to bisphenol A, more commonly known […]

As more U.S. farms adopt robots and highly automated machines as solutions to labor shortages, California, the largest agricultural state in the country, is facing […]

A new survey of more than 900 Wisconsin farmers reveals that a majority acknowledge that climate change is happening and will harm future generations. The […]