Test

This is only a test. If it were a real story, it would be worth reading. But it’s not, so it isn’t. Please stay tuned […]

“I’ll Fly Away” may be the theme song of some insect species exposed to elevated levels of ozone, according to groundbreaking research by Edward Mondor and his colleagues in the entomology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They are researching the effects of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and ozone on insect behavior and physiology.

Larry Meiller takes the Wisconsin Idea –

In recent months consumers have become all too familiar with news of oil costs spiking, and most experts agree that higher prices at the pump are likely here to stay. As the demand for alternative forms of energy grows,

The Crave brothers of Waterloo, Lawrie Kull of Stillwater, Minn., Robert Rennebohm of Madison, and Robert Williams of Pardeeville will receive Honorary Recognition awards Oct. 27 from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The awards will be presented at a banquet in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus.

Woodcock wrangler Jed Meunier sees a lot of sunsets during his research. Fieldwork in the twilight hours comes with the territory when you’re trapping timberdoodles for science. Meunier, a graduate student in wildlife ecology at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, is part of a multi-year study of woodcock in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. The project is helping to reveal the reasons underlying woodcock population declines in the upper Midwest.

Given the number of human pharmaceuticals and hormones that make their way into wastewater, some people are concerned about how well treatment plants that turn sewage into reusable water remove these chemicals. New research shows that wastewater treatment plants that employ a combination of purifying techniques followed by reverse osmosis do a good job of removing chemicals that may elicit health effects.

Wisconsin’s dairy industry is in the midst of major restructuring, brought on by changes in national and international competition, new federal marketing and pricing programs, and challenges of mature production and processing infrastructures. If the state’s dairy industry is to prosper and expand, it must find new ways to produce milk at prices competitive with other regions of the country and the world, and do that while protecting environmental quality and enhancing agriculture’s natural-resource base.

Mosquito abatement usually means one thing: blasting the pesky critters with pesticides. Those pesticides, although highly effective, can impair other organisms in the environment. Que Lan, insect physiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her colleagues in the entomology department are working on a new, more targeted approach to mosquito control: inhibiting their ability to metabolize cholesterol.