Category: Changing Climate
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Posted on July 15, 2025
A Century of Research Partnerships
Hector DeLuca left his mark on the UW–Madison campus — literally. The professor emerit and former chair of biochemistry has three buildings that bear […]
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A MosAIC of Microbiomes
Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases and cause more than 700,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. […]
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Posted on March 5, 2025
The Sovereign Right to Renewable Resources
The quality of land on Native American reservations is often considered poor. These regions, where the U.S. government relocated tribes in the mid- to […]
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A New View of Diversified Crop Benefits
It’s long been assumed that diversified cropping systems, which involve growing a variety of crops in one area with manure as a nutrient source, […]
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Posted on October 23, 2024
How Wet is America’s Soil? Nobody Really Knows, But AI Can Help
From sudden floods to weeks of scorching heat, increasingly unstable weather is a headache for U.S. farmers. Known as “weather whiplash,” these disorienting swings […]
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Wolf Rewilding Leads to Unforeseen Species Interactions
Opportunities to study carnivores before and after wolves are reintroduced to their ranges are rare. So researchers from CALS thanked their lucky stars when […]
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Carbon Capture via Pasture
In Can Farms Pull Carbon from Sky to Soil? (Grow, summer 2023), Hal Conick highlighted the early stages of an ongoing long-term study by […]
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Posted on July 1, 2024
The Secrets of Cold Weather Soil Unearthed
When hydrology engineer Anita Thompson was growing up in Minnesota, she knew what to expect from winter. The temperatures would drop below freezing around […]
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Most Humans Can’t Multitask to Save Their Lives. But These Microbes Can.
We often look to the smallest life-forms for help solving the biggest problems: Microbes can make foods and beverages, cure diseases, treat waste, and […]
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Major Changes
The world is changing rapidly. As it shifts, the challenges our stakeholders face — and what they require to tackle them — continue to […]
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Five Considerations for Plant Hardiness Zones (and Your Garden)
Plant hardiness zones are used to determine if a plant can thrive in a given climate — and your own backyard. The USDA Plant […]
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This App Hits the Tar Spot
Tar spot, a disease of corn plants caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, has been causing problems in Mexico since the 1910s, but it […]