If you’ve passed by open water on the Madison lakes in the last few weeks, you’ve likely seen a bevy of swans. They’re stopping over […]

Conservation experts and farmers alike are pretty pleased with the news from Pleasant Valley. A seven-year pilot project in this 12,000-acre sub-watershed of the Pecatonica […]

Haven’t spotted a campus fox in awhile? You’re not alone, says David Drake. Last spring there were as many as 17 foxes on campus—including the highly visible (and […]

As this year’s wolf hunt winds down, we talked with Tim Van Deelen about a hidden and disturbing topic: illegal killing, which he says may have increased in […]

IT IS AN INSECT LITTLE BIGGER THAN A GRAIN OF RICE. But the invasive emerald ash borer may as well be Godzilla for all the […]

Teaching students how to determine if a sow is in estrus is tricky. Bringing a class into the barn to watch would be distracting for the sows, and […]

While most officers in the UW-Madison Police Department forgo the stereotypical coffee-and-donuts breakfast, it’s true that many still struggle with healthy eating. And no wonder. […]

If you’ve ever gaped at the interior of a purple carrot or a beauty heart radish while preparing dinner, you have a sense of what inspired plant […]

Be sure to view this episode of WPT’s Wisconsin Life about a class that’s been taught for 36 years by Emeritus Professor of Food Science Bob Bradley. […]

Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have quietly been remade, most […]