Scientists are forecasting significantly warmer winters, altered patterns of precipitation and more severe weather events for the Badger state.

Last year CALS partnered with the Athletic Department on a carbon-neutral football game. This year CALS faculty and staff are helping extend the effort to the entire football season.

When hot pavement raises the temperature of stormwater runoff, trout and other coldwater species are put at risk. CALS researchers are refining tools that can help developers predict and mitigate the problem.

This summer, Doug Soldat is saving for a not-so-rainy day. He’s banking rainwater, up to 8,000 gallons of it, enough to keep the lawn at UW-Madison’s O.J. Noer turfgrass center lush through the driest weeks of summer.

UW-Madison emeritus professor Larry Meiller is the first recipient of the Wisconsin Tree Legacy Fund’s Joyce Kilmer Award in recognition of his efforts to promote tree research and education.

Wisconsin anglers and boaters will get music with a message as the University of Wisconsin-Madison launches a trio of rock, rockabilly and folk songs about preventing VHS fish disease, zebra mussels, and other aquatic invasive species from spreading to new lakes and rivers.

In a study that drew on both historical and present-day datasets, researchers have quantified and compared the above-ground carbon held in the forest trees of Wisconsin just prior to European settlement and widespread logging, and the total carbon they contain today.

Most Americans want to know more about biofuels, according to a new survey fielded by researchers in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Infectious agent known as prions resist almost every method of destruction, from fire and ionizing radiation to chemical disinfectants and autoclaving. Now, however, a team of Wisconsin researchers has found that a common soil mineral, an oxidized from of manganese known as birnessite, can penetrate the prion’s armor and degrade the protein.

As the southern pine beetle moves through the forest boring tunnels inside the bark of trees, it brings with it both a helper and a competitor. The helper is a fungus that the insect plants inside the tunnels as food for its young. But also riding along is a tiny, hitchhiking mite, which likewise carries a fungus for feeding its own larvae.