climate change

As spring comes earlier, birds are starting their migrations earlier, some are starting their breeding a little earlier, taking different routes, or going a little further north.

The USA National Phenology Network shows that this year spring arrived three to five weeks earlier than the average between 1991 to 2020 in much of the central U.S. and two to three weeks earlier in southern Midwest states.

The latest report from the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts finds the 2010s were the wettest decade on record

The Trump Administration recently rescinded the central scientific finding that’s the basis of much of the nation’s climate pollution rules under the Clean Air Act.

Whitecap Mountains Resort faces financial challenges after lack of snow in recent winters.

Extreme weather can have expensive and deadly consequences.The Wisconsin State Climatology Office wants to work with people in rural area to see how it can better work with them to prepare for such events.

Ticks and mosquitoes are expected to have better and longer breeding periods as Wisconsin warms.People may have already noticed it recently with our well-below average snowfalls the last two winters.

A collaboration of researchers, universities, and environmental organizations are working towards how our region can adapt to climate change.The Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center was formed in 2021 to focus this research on eight states including Wisconsin and Michigan.The work they do is at risk by proposed federal cuts.

Last Friday, Congress heard from several speakers on the urgency of clamping down on methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that primarily comes from agriculture

For now, the Environmental Protection Agency can move forward with plans to establish new, federal carbon pollution standards for power plants