When you buy a cup of coffee that has been certified as Fair Trade, Organic or another “socially responsible” label, do you know what you […]

Wisconsin growers may have the greenest potato on the planet. So why can’t you get it at your supermarket? It’s complicated.

As one of the anchors of the CALS Department of Community and Environmental Sociology––formally Rural Sociology––Jack Kloppenburg was talking about sustainability before sustainability was cool. […]

As senior vice president of research at Amyris Biotechnologies, Jack Newman PhD’01 is focused on some of the world’s biggest problems. He co-founded the company […]

As owner of P Squared Group, Porter BS’82 MS’85 helps companies and other organizations find practical ways to become more energy efficient. She advises clients […]

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 University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has geared up to understand the when, where and why of these dangerous

Wisconsin’s cranberry growers have made significant gains in the adoption of sustainable management practices during the past two decades, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison survey […]

For long-term survival, European bison need to live in large herds. But does the crowded continent have room? A wildlife research aims to find out.

Fungal disease has become an epidemic in Wisconsin forests since it first showed up in a stand of pines in Adams County in 1993.

Environmental historian Nancy Langston started her latest book planning to highlight the lasting legacy of manufactured chemicals that touched the lives of millions of Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.