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It's been 10 years since a bat-killing fungus was first discovered in the northeastern United States. The white fungus and the disease it causes — white-nose syndrome — is now found in 31 states, including Wisconsin.
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.
Over the course of many decades, synthetic chemicals like bisphenol A became ubiquitous in American life.
With the summer of 2017 in the record books, many parts of Wisconsin are still feeling the impact of the season's wet weather.
A hill in Vernon County was overrun with red cedar and prickly ash, it contained a secret past. It was once a hillside prairie and an oak savanna.
The concept of flood recurrence intervals is a classic example of a communication gap that can form between scientists and the public.
What would happen if a devastating rainstorm that hits an area and causes damaging floods instead struck somewhere else?
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What happened in 2016 with purported Russian hacking on Wisconsin's elections infrastructure? Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesperson Reid Magney says hackers may have been looking for possible entrances to gain access to voter data.
From Harvey to Irma to Maria, there have been no shortage of catastrophic hurricanes leaving parts of the U.S. and its territories under water and their residents on edge. But the technologies that track these storms is improving.
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In the wake of the recent hurricanes that have battered the Gulf Coast, Derrick Herndon of UW-Madison's Tropical Cyclone Research Group discusses how meteorologists track storms from the lab they call "The Cave."