Bruce Allison, an adjunct professor in the forest and wildlife ecology department, teaches students how to assess the health and stability of trees using modern, […]

“The quality of water in Wisconsin is excellent. This whole exercise is about that,” said soils professor Bill Bland as he made his way to […]

CALS’ Phil Townsend studies how pine beetle damage affects wildfire risk in Western forests. His research is described in this video, produced by the NASA […]

Honeybees are suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder. Can native bees take over the job of pollinating the nation’s crops? UW-Madison graduate student Hannah Gaines discusses […]

In a study that promises to fill in the fine details of the plant world’s blueprint for surviving drought, a team of Wisconsin researchers has […]

Doug Cameron, founder and managing director of Alberti Advisors, LLC, will be a featured speaker at the Wisconsin Bioenergy Summit on Thursday, October 14th at […]

Fish are good for you—except when they’re bad. How a legacy of environmental contamination continues to haunt one of our healthiest foods, and what we can do to fix it.

Volker Radeloff is an expert on wildland fire, conservation biology and threats to biodiversity by land use and housing development.

Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of […]