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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]