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The first scientific report of its type in a decade highlights the changing climate is altering weather patterns, wildlife habitats, industry conditions and a myriad of cultural traditions across Wisconsin. ...

FROM THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) today released its 2021 climate assessment report, Wisconsin’s Changing Climate: Impacts and Solutions for a Warmer Climate. The report is the most comprehensive assessment to date on the impact of climate change in Wisconsin and includes details on the continued warming and increased precipitation throughout the state. The report found that since 1950, statewide temperatures have warm...

MADISON, Wis. – On Feb. 10, 2022, the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) released its 2021 climate assessment report, Wisconsin’s Changing Climate: Impacts and Solutions for a Warmer Climate. The report is the most comprehensive assessment to date on the impact of climate change in Wisconsin and includes details on the continued warming and increased precipitation throughout the state. The report found that since 1950, statewide temperatures have warmed by 3 degrees Fahre...

When she was young, Gesangyangji would stare at the peaks on the mountains surrounding Lhasa, her birthplace in the Tibetan Plateau. They were covered in snow. But as she grew up she noticed the snow …

The  Department of the Interior today announced the location of the newest Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC), the ninth and final CASC in the national network dedicated to providing science to help managers of the country’s fish and wildlife resources adapt to climate change.

Photo: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (Other) It’s a climate cliché to say the world is on fire, but it is. Right now, wildfires are burning across the Midwest in a major spring burn. The spring flames there are a warning sign of what could be an active fire season out in the coming months. Advertisement In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers declared a state of emergency on Monday in response to the state’s elevated wildfire risk. According to a Sunday press release from Wisconsin’s D...

Climate change mitigation is an economic opportunity MONROE COUNTY - According to Dr. Dan Vimont of the Director of the UW-Madison Center for Climatic Research, we are “never going back to the climate we had in the 20thcentury.” Vimont spoke to members of the Monroe County Climate Change Task Force at their January meeting. The planet crossed the 400 parts-per-million (ppm) threshold for levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere in November of 2015. Since then, levels...

Pandemic-related research initiative receives strong campus response The high volume of applications submitted to a recent Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education initiative underscores the serious impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison last spring. The OVCRGE received 110 applications for the Pandemic-Affected Research Continuation Initiative and will support 70. Funded projects come from across campus and represent ...