Flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Wisconsin as climate change brings more extreme weather. A civil and environmental engineer joins us to look at how prepared the state is for flooding and what …

A historic spring blizzard left two feet of snow on the ground in parts of Wisconsin five years ago, record breaking hot temperatures in the upper 80s sweltered the state this April and smoke from …

With heatwaves and wildfires making national headlines throughout the summer, the new director of Wisconsin’s state climate office said there’s no doubt that similar disasters are becoming more and more common.

When she first started college, Andrea Dutton didn’t know she wanted to be a geoscientist. Now, she works on solving Earth’s biggest geological puzzles.

Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts co-director Steve Vavrus explains how the summer’s extreme heat, wildfire smoke and drought reflect growing challenges for the state in a warming world.

Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist and the assistant director of the Nelson Institute’s Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been named the new state climatologist and director of the Wisconsin State …

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) is thrilled to receive the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site award from the National Science Foundation. The award will support the “Student Training …

Andrea Dutton, a professor of geology and sedimentologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is leading international research on climate change.  Her work focuses on studying fossilized corals to track changes in sea level. It’s helping scientists …