While last month’s meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa, made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt […]

Tim Donohue has spent the last four years building a pipeline—but not the kind that springs to mind when we think of fuel. The professor […]

Environmental sociologist Michael Bell has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), a multi-disciplinary research and outreach program that focuses on […]

Using satellite images, Mutlu Ozdogan, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is automatically generating maps showing where trees have […]

How do we get biomass from the land while preserving–or even benefiting–its living communities?

During the past decade, voluntary contracts called conservation easements have become a popular method for conserving land. Embodied in an agreement between landowners and a […]

It’s something of an ecological murder mystery — countless numbers of bats are turning up dead near wind farms. But what is killing them? A […]

Scientists have proven that the fungus Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome, a fast-spreading and highly lethal disease of bats. Research published today (Wednesday, Oct. 26) […]

The UW-Madison is among several institutions that will collaborate through a new federal Northeast Climate Science Center (CSC)  to study the effects of climate change on […]