Category: Changing Climate
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Posted on October 23, 2014
When the isthmus is an island: Madison’s hottest, and coldest, spots
As Dane County begins the long slide into winter and the days become frostier this fall, three spots stake their claim as the chilliest in […]
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Posted on October 16, 2014
Climate change alters the cast of winter birds
Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have quietly been remade, most […]
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Posted on August 18, 2014
No one-size-fits-all approach in a changing climate, changing land
As climate change alters habitats for birds and bees and everything in between, so too does the way humans decide to use land. Researchers at […]
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UW field day tour focuses on greenhouse gases and crop management
There will be a special session on research related to greenhouse gases and crop management at the Agronomy/Soils Field Day at 8 a.m. Aug. 27 […]
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Posted on July 28, 2014
Natalia de Leon breeds corn on the cutting edge of biofuel research
Traveling across the American Midwest, where corn is both a major commodity and a prominent feature of the rural landscape, it’s easy to take the […]
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Readying communities for rising seas
Global sea levels have risen almost nine inches since 1870, driven by the thermal expansion of ocean water and the melting of glaciers as the […]
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Posted on April 29, 2014
Two CALS teams among winners of Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge
Two CALS-based teams took silver in the 2014 Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge. Second place in The Dvorak Energy Innovation Prize contest – and $1,500 […]
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UW–Madison Styrofoam reuse and recycling program wins competition
A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduates — composed of three students from CALS and one from the College of Engineering — has won a […]
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Posted on March 11, 2014
Paradigm shifts, great discoveries and shining moments
In honor of the CALS Quasquicentennial, the cover story in the new issue of Grow magazine includes accounts of a dozen paradigm shifts, great discoveries and shining […]
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Posted on February 10, 2014
Communicating science in the digital age
Two months after retiring from the Madison-based Wisconsin State Journal, where for 34 years he’d reported primarily on science and the environment, Ron Seely splays […]