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No one knows yet for sure how much water Foxconn's planned electronics manufacturing plant in Mount Pleasant will need for its daily operations, but just getting it there will be a big job.
When economic recession struck in 2008, big banks weren't the only industry dealt a blow. Manufacturers suffered major setbacks, too, particularly automakers. Their struggles sent a ripple effect across the United States, but were felt in one Wisconsin city in particular.
Over the course of many decades, synthetic chemicals like bisphenol A became ubiquitous in American life.
Efforts to have science inform law have played out vividly over the past 20 years of disputes over high-capacity groundwater wells in Wisconsin.
The opioid crisis is a grave and growing burden on local governments, in one way or another.
With the summer of 2017 in the record books, many parts of Wisconsin are still feeling the impact of the season's wet weather.
The concept of flood recurrence intervals is a classic example of a communication gap that can form between scientists and the public.
Amid several frustrated attempts to get Congress repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is taking multiple steps to simply inhibit the law's annual implementation.
In an era of mass incarceration, the arts can offer prison inmates an opportunity for personal growth and help them prepare to re-enter society.
Language shapes how people view the world, build ideas and communicate with others people — it's an integral part of community culture and personal identity. But for many Native American nations, their ancestral languages are on the verge of disappearing.