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Series: Challenges To Wisconsin's Rural Schools

Noon Wednesday: Where's The Internet Disconnect?

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PBS Wisconsin

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About one in six households across Wisconsin lack an internet connection, creating digital inequities that impact students and communities as a whole. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction broadband consultant Bill Herman discusses these gaps and where schools are finding solutions.

Series: Extreme Precipitation And Wisconsin's Climate

When Big Storms Inundate Wisconsin, How Could Wetlands 'Slow The Flow'?

Will Cushman

WisContext

The connection between Wisconsin's rivers and the wetlands that feed them has become increasingly tenuous. Its consequences for human communities come into clearer focus when heavy rains transform streams and rivers into forces of wanton destruction.

Series: Extreme Precipitation And Wisconsin's Climate

How Communities Are Managing, Recovering And Adapting To Increased Flooding

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Kate Archer Kent

Wisconsin Public Radio

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As heavy autumn rains fall over much of Wisconsin, WisContext associate editor Will Cushman talks about extreme precipitation and how sever flooding is affecting infrastructure at the local level.

Series: The Yahara Watershed

Series: Phosphorus In Wisconsin's Land And Water

What's At The Bottom Of Lake Mendota And What It Teaches Us

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Rob Ferrett

Wisconsin Public Radio

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Water quality in Madison's Lake Mendota is changing, and it turns out the sludge at the bottom of it can help explain why. Jake Walsh, a researcher who formerly studied the lake at the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, discusses what scientists are learning.

Series: Climate Science And Wisconsin

Noon Wednesday: Climate Change And Human Rights

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Marisa Wojcik

PBS Wisconsin

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As farmers struggle to raise their crops and communities find themselves under water, the effects of climate change are being increasingly felt in Wisconsin. UW Law School director of research centers Sumudu Atapattu discusses how this issue intersects with concepts of human rights.

Series: The Yahara Watershed

Series: Phosphorus In Wisconsin's Land And Water

A Twist In The Tale Told By Muck At The Bottom Of Lake Mendota

Jake Walsh

UW-Madison

The vast majority of what happens under the surface of lakes goes unrecorded, meaning potentially important ecological stories are often lost to history.

The Role The 'Racial Context Of Childhood' Plays In Shaping Social Attitudes

Margaret Hagerman

Mississippi State University

Kids developed ideas about race by observing and interpreting what was going on around them. And because of important variations in these social environments, the children made sense of race in different ways.

The (Not So) Secret Lives Of City-Dwelling Coyotes And Foxes

Will Cushman

WisContext

Red foxes and coyotes are a curious bunch of carnivores. Scientists studying these carnivores living in the state's capital are beginning to unravel how these city dwellers differ from their country counterparts, sometimes in surprising ways.

Why Haven't More People Heard Of The Endangered Regal Fritillary?

Mary Kate McCoy

Wisconsin Public Radio

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On this particular day, and in this particular year, the regal fritillary appeared to be thriving at the Schurch-Thomson Prairie outside Barneveld.

Series: Extreme Precipitation And Wisconsin's Climate

Washed Away: Northwest Wisconsin Copes With The Costs Of A Changing Climate

Will Cushman

WisContext

Massive rainstorms hit northwest Wisconsin in 2012, 2016 and 2018, causing tens of millions of dollars in flood damage to public infrastructure. Local officials responsible for rebuilding hope they're able to make improvements to withstand more big storms when they come.