Climate Change

As COP30 is underway in Brazil, a group of researchers, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison published a report showing most countries are slacking on their goals to slow climate change.

When a grand, old tree is cut down, it can take generations to replace it. Now, Madison officials are trying to protect those trees with updated rules for construction projects.

U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany said both the U.S. and Canada need to change forest management practices to harvest more trees and adopt modern technologies that “can detect fire very early on” and help suppress them.

The prairie chicken of central Wisconsin is an elusive grouse that is rarely seen, and its conservation efforts are connected to Aldo Leopold. But over the past 70 years, the prairie chicken population has steeply declined.

Data collected in part by the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission shows a decrease in manoomin — a wild rice plant important to Ojibwe lifeways.

All six U.S. regional climate centers will remain online through a new contract deadline in mid-June.

The price for cocoa — the main ingredient in chocolate — has soared over the past three years. The surge is mainly due to small harvests in West Africa, where the bulk of the world’s cocoa is grown. Climate change has brought extreme heat to the area, which has limited the crop’s production.

Local governments are making formal plans to reduce their carbon footprint and protect the environment.

Where do people move when they’re displaced by climate-fueled natural disasters? A climate journalist joins WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to explain what people get wrong about “climate havens.”

Warm winters and rising performance costs are driving Ashwabay Alliance to restructure operations this year.