They don’t do it for the mounted heads, they do it to spend time in nature. That’s the verdict of a survey asking more than […]

Wisconsin boaters and anglers seem to be doing a better job of following rules aimed at curbing the spread of aquatic invasive species, according to […]

Climate change is fueling the biggest outbreak ever of tree-killing bark beetles. The insects are decimating conifer forests from Alaska to Arizona—and raising concerns that they could reach the Upper Midwest.

THIS PAST SEPTEMBER, Karl Malcolm scoured the forested mountaintops of Southwestern China for evidence of Asiatic black bears, hiking with a team of Chinese naturalists […]

It is an icy winter Monday, and Stan Temple, for the sake of a shortened semester, must cram two lectures into one for the 300 […]

Future queen or tireless toiler? A paper wasp’s destiny may lie in the antennal drumbeats of its caretaker. While feeding their colony’s larvae, a paper […]

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is turning a comprehensive lens on Madison’s water in all its forms — […]

Jim Bockheim, a UW-Madison soil scientist, studies carbon-rich soils in the Arctic and Antarctic, in hopes of better understanding how much carbon dioxide they will […]