The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Frautschi Center will be a welcoming space for visitors.
Environment
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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.
Our cover photo of a canoe recovered from Lake Mendota helps you see history through the eyes of an archaeologist.
While exploring the microscopic similarities that unite species, Kat Milligan-McClennan ’99, PhD’09 embraced her long-rejected Indigenous identity.
Retrace the steps of UW limnologist Harriet Bell Merrill 1890, who defied the doubters to conduct pioneering fieldwork in South America.
Florence Dunkel’64, MS’66 sees food potential in bugs.
The UW helps found the Midwest Climate Collaborative — and seeks results.
The UW devises a tool to detect fog and low-lying clouds.
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.
Bee cool: a honeybee approaches cherry blossoms in the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens. The bee clearly has good taste. The Arb was designated a National Historic Landmark in January. It joins four other UW landmarks: the Red Gym, North Hall, Science Hall, and the Dairy Barn.…
UW professor Pupa Gilbert believes these essential parts of Earth’s ecosystem are more resilient than we thought.
Katie Lorenz ’12 sells alpaca-fleece products while ensuring fair wages for Peruvian artisans.
The SWAP shop gives new life to UW surplus while helping the environment.
Andrea Dutton gets frank about rising sea levels.
With a unique adventure program, Elyse Rylander ’12 helps queer kids find a safe haven in nature.
Stefanie Spear ’90 battles plastic pollution on a two-year voyage.
UW–Madison innovations help farmers reinvent themselves in challenging times.
Laura Schara went from a fashionista to a TV outdoorswoman.
Earth Day is going strong after 50 years, and so is the Nelson Institute.
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.
Volunteers develop a course to help students help themselves.
They might interfere with weather forecasting.
From YouTube star to professional BMX rider, Badger alums have proven the versalitity of a UW diploma.
A UW–developed portable weather lab journeys to the Philippine Sea.