Qatar’s reserves of oil and natural gas make it one of the richest countries in the world—except when it comes to water. The desert nation […]

Lofty red barns may be Wisconsin icons, but the real workhorse structure in agriculture today is the post-frame building. You can’t drive very far down […]

It’s late May, weeks before southern Wisconsin would be locked into a scorching drought, and Kirk Leach BS’78 is worrying about the weather. The grass […]

This past summer Kelsey Egelhoff, an undergraduate in the forest and wildlife ecology department, spent the summer filming some of the research and other activities […]

Using the meticulous phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have demonstrated that native plants in the eastern […]

Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals. […]

Researchers have found that the organism that causes deadly white-nose syndrome persists in caves long after it has killed the bats in those caves. A […]

Have you ever seen a plant recoil from your touch? Such “sensitive plants” exist, including the ones in our campus greenhouses that are shown in […]

It may sound unlikely. Certainly it sounds idyllic. But there’s a university course where professors may interrupt class to watch sturgeon swim by, and where […]