Category: Changing Climate
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					Posted on December 22, 2014 
					Muddy forests, shorter winters present challenges for loggersStable, 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 […] 
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					Posted on October 23, 2014 
					When the isthmus is an island: Madison’s hottest, and coldest, spotsAs 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 birdsOver 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 landAs 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 managementThere 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 researchTraveling 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 seasGlobal 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 ChallengeTwo 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 competitionA 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 momentsIn 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 […]