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  • Posted on August 2, 2016
    UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative winners include CALS-led projects

    Fourteen research and infrastructure projects – including four with CALS participants – have been selected by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor […]

  • Posted on March 31, 2016
    No snow, no hares: Climate change pushes emblematic species north

    If there is an animal emblematic of the northern winter, it is the snowshoe hare. A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its […]

  • Posted on January 15, 2016
    Warming winters

    Jonathan Pauli and Benjamin Zuckerberg, both assistant professors in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, appear in a recent video explaining the subnivium — […]

  • Posted on December 22, 2015
    Bird habitat changing quickly as climate change proceeds

    The climatic conditions needed by 285 species of land birds in the United States have moved rapidly between 1950 and 2011 as a result of […]

  • Posted on September 29, 2015
    Heat waves hit heat islands hardest

    Extreme summers like that of 2012 — which saw record temperatures in cities across the U.S. — may be atypical, but experts say they will […]

  • Posted on March 27, 2015
    Study finds that climate change is hurting soybean yields

    Even 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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    Shawn 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 […]

  • Posted on March 3, 2015
    Munching bugs thwart eager trees, reducing the carbon sink

    In a high carbon dioxide world, the trees would come out ahead. Except for the munching bugs. A new study published on March 2, 2015 […]

  • Posted on February 17, 2015
    To the ends of the earth

    In April 2011, James Bockheim led a small team of researchers to a rocky spit of land called Cierva Point, a habitat protected by the […]

  • Posted on December 22, 2014
    Muddy forests, shorter winters present challenges for loggers

    Stable, frozen ground has long been recognized a logger’s friend, capable of supporting equipment and trucks in marshy or soggy forests. Now, a comprehensive look […]