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Every time the United Nations climate negotiations get under way, media stories appear about the carbon emissions generated as thousands of government officials, environmentalists and scientists fly in from around the world. Similar questions have been raised about major environmental-science conferences, such as the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which last year …
April 7, 2015 | By Maija Inveiss For most students living in the residence halls, it is easier to go to a dining hall or microwave a frozen meal rather than make homemade meals from fresh, local ingredients. Sarah Clifford, a sophomore at UW–Madison, is trying to change that practice through new cooking demonstrations at …
When is a wetland a sink and when is a wetland a source? That is the question an international team of researchers set out to answer in a new study published online March 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ankur Desai, professor ofatmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is …
March 23, 2015 Researchers at the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are developing an industry partnership that promises to create jobs here in Wisconsin.
March 23, 2015 | by: Terry Devitt By figuring out how to precisely order the molecules that make up what scientists call organic glass — the materials at the heart of some electronic displays, light-emitting diodes and solar cells — a team of chemists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has set the stage for more …
For the past decade, professor Ankur Desai has been working with collaborators from across the country to study the uptake and emission of carbon in northern Wisconsin’s forests, wetlands and lakes.
From an improved online undergraduate course on climate change, atmospheric sciences professor Steve Ackerman and outreach specialist Margaret Mooney have leveraged their efforts into a massive open online course (MOOC) that is reaching thousands of learners throughout Wisconsin and beyond.
March 12, 2015 | by Kelly April Tyrrell Jane Collins, a professor of community & environmental sociology and gender and women’s studies, and a faculty affiliate of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, has been chosen for a prestigious Hilldale Award, an annual recognition for University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members that dates back to 1987.