Category: Changing Climate
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					Posted on November 10, 2016 
					Tropical moth alights in UW’s Botany Garden, a Wisconsin firstThe subtle nuances of how seeds become plants are University of Wisconsin–Madison botany Professor Edgar Spalding’s day job. Just down Bascom Hill from Spalding’s lab, […] 
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					Posted on August 2, 2016 
					UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative winners include CALS-led projectsFourteen research and infrastructure projects – including four with CALS participants – have been selected by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor […] 
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					Posted on March 31, 2016 
					No snow, no hares: Climate change pushes emblematic species northIf there is an animal emblematic of the northern winter, it is the snowshoe hare. A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its […] 
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					Posted on January 15, 2016 
					Warming wintersJonathan Pauli and Benjamin Zuckerberg, both assistant professors in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, appear in a recent video explaining the subnivium — […] 
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					Posted on December 22, 2015 
					Bird habitat changing quickly as climate change proceedsThe climatic conditions needed by 285 species of land birds in the United States have moved rapidly between 1950 and 2011 as a result of […] 
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					Posted on September 29, 2015 
					Heat waves hit heat islands hardestExtreme summers like that of 2012 — which saw record temperatures in cities across the U.S. — may be atypical, but experts say they will […] 
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					Posted on March 27, 2015 
					Study finds that climate change is hurting soybean yieldsEven during good years, our nation’s soybean farmers are, in essence, taking a loss. That’s because changes in weather patterns have been eating into their […] 
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					Soybeans and changing climate – Audio /RSS Feed /RSS FeedShawn Conley, Extension Wheat and Soybean Agronomist Department of Agronomy UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (608) 262-7975 spconley@wisc.edu Soybeans adapting to a variable […] 
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					Posted on March 3, 2015 
					Munching bugs thwart eager trees, reducing the carbon sinkIn a high carbon dioxide world, the trees would come out ahead. Except for the munching bugs. A new study published on March 2, 2015 […] 
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					Posted on February 17, 2015 
					To the ends of the earthIn April 2011, James Bockheim led a small team of researchers to a rocky spit of land called Cierva Point, a habitat protected by the […]