When it comes to climate change, University of Wisconsin­–Madison forest and wildlife ecology Professor Ben Zuckerberg says birds are the proverbial canary in the coal […]

Since the first research project was initiated there in May 1967, the Biotron Laboratory on the west end of campus has been one of a […]

It’s a common late summer sight in south-central Wisconsin: a prairie in bloom, with tall, waving grasses peppered with bursts of yellow, purple, and white. […]

When El Nino approaches, driven by warm Pacific Ocean waters, we’ve come to expect both drenching seasonal rains in the southern U.S. and drought in […]

It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. To Zuzana Burivalova, an audio recording is worth a thousand pictures. That’s the beauty of bioacoustics, […]

After analyzing decades of data on groundwater and precipitation, scientists at University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have linked precipitation trends […]

In 2013, the $10 million Dairy Coordinated Agricultural Project, or Dairy CAP, set out to assess the greenhouse gas contributions of the dairy industry and […]

Aldo Leopold’s book A Sand County Almanac was published 70 years ago. But its message about our relationship with nature is more important now than ever. Written from […]

Noted conservation biologist and longtime University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Stanley Temple is often asked how he remains hopeful despite rising threats to biodiversity. Temple’s answer […]

In a country with more than 5,000 potato varieties, you might not expect the arrival of another one to be a big deal. But this […]