In a rare opportunity to study carnivores before and after wolves were reintroduced to their ranges, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that the […]

At first glance, the winter landscape in Wisconsin can appear relatively lifeless. But life is out there — in many places. For example, beneath the […]

Keira Obert, who grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota, will be graduating this spring with a bachelor’s in wildlife ecology and certificates in environmental studies […]

CALS students are doing amazing things! Meet some of them in our Q&A series.  This week we’re hearing from Arianna Barajas, a senior majoring in […]

Our world is vast and brimming with an array of creatures. It can be challenging to think about what goes on outside our own neighborhoods, […]

Scientists have been measuring global methane emissions for decades, but the boreal arctic —with a wide range of biomes including wetlands that extend across the […]

When people think of wildfires, they often think of huge forests burning and flames jumping from tree to tree. But according to new research led […]

Human presence and influence on landscapes change the way other animals interact by bringing them close together more frequently than happens in wilder places. That’s […]

Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat […]

Researchers led by a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and […]