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An alumna uses her Miss Earth title to advocate for the environment.
The new UW initiative will hire faculty to address environmental problems.
UW–Madison launches the Sustainability Research Hub.
The UW leads the charge in protecting water quality and public health.
I feel the need — the need for seed. Students scatter seeds into the wind at Lakeshore Nature Preserve’s Biocore Prairie near Picnic Point. The Biocore project began in 1997, and it currently occupies about 11 acres. A generation later, students still scatter seeds, pull weeds, observe controlled burns,…
UW researchers preserve animal DNA for species that face extinction.
Robin Wall Kimmerer MS’78, PhD’83 braids Western science and Indigenous knowledge into a vision for a sustainable future.
New software provides ultra-real-time information from satellites.
Shifting to clean energy sources would do the trick, according to UW research.
A UW study explores oceanic changes that would make temperatures drop.
What we eat affects greenhouse gas emissions — and the trend is encouraging.
The UW helps found the Midwest Climate Collaborative — and seeks results.
UW botanist Ken Cameron studies the flowers that produce the world's favorite flavor. Can he save them from extinction?
A solar panel array will harvest power from the sun for the next 30 years.
UW professor Joseph Hickey MS’43 linked pesticides to declining populations.
UW professor Pupa Gilbert believes these essential parts of Earth’s ecosystem are more resilient than we thought.
Andrea Dutton gets frank about rising sea levels.
Stefanie Spear ’90 battles plastic pollution on a two-year voyage.
UW researchers are unlocking the secrets to growing food in outer space.
Despite bleak environmental news, the UW’s Nelson Institute finds reasons to hope.
A survey counts up all the ways the university is sustainable — and all the ways it can improve.
Now based at the Arboretum, Journey North marshals an army of amateur biologists.
The pioneering conservationist and UW alumnus climbed the mountain in 1888. Today, following his path is no easy task.
Experts use math to better understand a sea creature’s defense mechanism.
Hamerstrom, one of the UW’s pioneering ecologists, exhibits the tail feathers of a broad-winged hawk in Plainfield, Wisconsin, in 1965. UW Archives Neg. 18146
Frances (Fran — pronounced “Fron”) Hamerstrom MS’40 was a pioneering wildlife ecologist. She and her husband, Frederick, came to the UW to study…
Chris Burt ’83 has long been fascinated by weather — of the extreme variety.
John Curtis, shown here in his lab in 1951, introduced the concept of burning prairie as a means of restoration. The Arb conducted its first burn in the 1940s. UW Archives S04992
Bring up conservation in Wisconsin and you’ll often hear the name John Curtis MS1935,…
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Nic Mink ’02, PhD’10 is mad as halibut, and he’s not going to take it anymore. Mink likes fish. But he very much prefers his fish to be good fish. The world has too much bad-tasting seafood, he argues, and it doesn’t have to…