The issue of chronic wasting disease has been prevalent among the deer population in Wisconsin, but could the disease spread to humans? University of Minnesota professor Michael Osterholm says it might.

Wisconsin suffered record-breaking cold in late January 2019, with an influx of frigid air that UW-Madison atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor Jon Martin says was "dug out" from from the Arctic by the jet stream.

A analysis released in January 2019 shows more than 40 percent of private wells in southwestern Wisconsin failed to meet drinking water standards. Meanwhile, rules implemented in the summer of 2018 attempt to curb groundwater contamination in other parts of the state.

What happens underneath the surface of the earth during times of flooding? Mike Parsen, a hydrogeologist with the Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, explains the relationship between rain and groundwater.