It’s well-known among scientists that viruses can alter the makeup and function of ecosystems. For example, they promote microbial diversity by infecting and killing select […]

In the King Hall greenhouse on the UW campus, Rebecca Smith stands amid a potted jungle of sorghum, clipping stalk segments into a plastic bin to be […]

Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever really happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist. He specializes in some of the nastiest, […]

For Ojibwe people, wild rice—manoomin—is far more than a food source. It is a sacred relative, central to culture, identity, and community well‑being. Yet over […]

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

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, […]

On Thursday, July 10, 2025, the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences hosted its annual Potato Research Field Day at the Hancock […]

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 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 […]