1. In a single month, the COVID-19 pandemic erased more than a decade’s-worth of new jobs. During the Great Recession (2007-09), Wisconsin’s employment level fell to […]

Ecologists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found that carnivores living near people can get more than half of their diets from human food sources, […]

The connection seems obvious: more rain means higher water levels. But it’s not always that simple. Many factors are at play, so it’s often a […]

Jori Skalitzky is a sophomore majoring in life sciences communication and environmental sciences. She wrote this perspecitve in mid-April 2020, several weeks after classes moved to […]

They wanted a way to help people understand how a disease like COVID-19 can transmit through a population. So Malia Jones and Caitlin Bourbeau of the Applied Population Laboratory (APL) made […]

Precision medicine has the potential to tailor treatments to a patient’s unique genetic sequence. But achieving this precision — or developing new drugs — requires […]

Coronaviruses come from a large family. It includes four genera and many species that infect a variety of mammals and birds — and sometimes reptiles. There […]

News stories about meat-packing workers succumbing to COVID-19 and meat shortages at grocery stores have caused some consumers to worry that the meat supply chain […]

Think of it as an environmental hangover. Tequila production in the Mexican state of Jalisco yields vast quantities of agave bagasse biomass, which poses serious […]