Stories indexed under: Environment

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• New Web site a guide to sustainability efforts Jan. 16, 2008 Sustainability@Wisconsin, a new Web site created by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, provides a single entry point to programs, units, projects and groups at the university that significantly address sustainability — the concept of meeting humanity’s current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
• Foreign ozone emissions lower U.S. air quality Dec. 13, 2007 When it comes to environmental impacts, no nation is an island. A recent study from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that up to 15 percent of U.S. air pollution comes from Asian and European sources.
• Waterborne carbon increases threat of environmental mercury Dec. 10, 2007 Mercury is a potent neurotoxin and a worrisome environmental contaminant, but the severity of its threat appears to depend on what else is in the water, researchers at UW-Madison have found.
• Post-Kyoto environmental discussion to take place at UW-Madison Nov. 13, 2007 This December in Bali, new international talks will be launched to determine the successor of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. The science has spoken. We know the problem is real, but how do we move forward with a solution?
• Illustration: The ethical dimensions of global climate change Nov. 6, 2007
• Speaker to discuss environmental justice in Latino communities Nov. 1, 2007 Devon Pena, a scholar-activist who has studied social and environmental issues in Mexican-American communities of the West, will give a free public lecture Monday, Nov. 12, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Sustainability strategist speaks at business forum Oct. 31, 2007 Stuart Hart, one of the world’s leading authorities on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism for business strategy, will be the keynote speaker at a free public forum on business, environment and social responsibility.
• Speaker to explore environmental justice in Latino communities Oct. 31, 2007 Devon Peña, a scholar-activist who has studied social and environmental issues in Mexican-American communities of the West, will give a free public lecture Monday, Nov. 12.
• Questions remain on what makes a perfect rain garden Oct. 31, 2007 Since their public introduction more than 10 years ago, rain gardens — small garden plots that are designed to collect and filter storm water — have created quite a storm among environmentally minded homeowners. But as their popularity has grown, so have opinions about what makes the perfect rain garden.
• New classes explore environmental film’s mobilizing power Oct. 31, 2007 Gregg Mitman believes in the power of a well-told story. This semester the professor of history of science is teaching two new courses on the environment from a cinematic perspective: a class on environmental film in history and a hands-on production class in documentary storytelling.
• For students, electric ‘sled’ is good, clean fun in the snow Oct. 31, 2007 Thanks to donations from Madison-based foundations and industry, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineers will have the chance to develop an earth-friendly snowmobile that could facilitate scientific research in Antarctica and Greenland.
• Researchers examine world’s potential to produce biodiesel Oct. 24, 2007 What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
• Festival to showcase environmental films in November Oct. 17, 2007 From travelogue-expedition films to the experimental avant-garde and the worlds of Walt Disney and Jacques Cousteau, cinema has been central to how we think about nature and the environment.
• New York environmental justice advocate to speak Oct. 24 Oct. 16, 2007 Peggy Shepard, a prominent environmental and health advocate for minority groups in New York City, will give a free public lecture Wednesday, October 24, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Fight to save celebrated prairie continues Oct. 3, 2007 Students from UW–Madison’s general ecology class have joined Arboretum researchers and land managers in an ambitious five-year plan to subdue the spread of invasive reed canary grass in the UW Arboretum’s Greene Prairie.
• Study: Nutrient pollution drives frog deformities Sept. 25, 2007 High levels of nutrients used in farming and ranching activities fuel parasite infections that have caused highly publicized frog deformities in ponds and lakes across North America, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Wisconsin prairie to be named for botany Professor Hugh Iltis Sept. 17, 2007 A prairie in Marquette County will soon be named for Hugh Iltis, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus of botany and former director of the UW-Madison Herbarium.
• UW expert to discuss public health risks from regional climate change Sept. 4, 2007 Climate models predict more extreme weather events for the Upper Midwest. Without increased precautions and investments in infrastructure, more people are expected to be affected by heat waves, pollution, severe storms, and infectious diseases.
• Invasive species spreads to Vilas County lake in Wisconsin Aug. 31, 2007 The spiny water flea, a small but aggressive aquatic invasive species, has made its way into another of Wisconsin's lakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reported last week.
• At home in the Northwoods Aug. 27, 2007 Summer is high season at Kemp Natural Resources Station in Woodruff, Wis, when a series of classes, researchers and visitors stream onto Kemp grounds. For most, Kemp serves as a home base for research projects that require access to woods, water, wildlife or wilderness. This summer, the station is hosting people studying topics ranging from climate change to lakeshore ecology to biodiversity.