Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

Gabriel Shapiro and David Skrovanek: Our transmission grid is outdated and strained by climate change, but technological advances can help bring down costs.

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

The bestselling crime writer and Scotland’s first female Geographer Royal had long kept their work separate, until a chance discovery about a doomed 17th-century expedition forced them to collaborate

Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.

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Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build

‘It’s something very much on our mind,’ said Thierry Gouvenou, the Tour’s technical director, with extreme weather likely to affect the peloton on Sunday

250 years later, the American nuclear experiment continues

Ongoing activities in Delhi's Central Ridge, undertaken in the name of restoration, may ultimately hinder ecological recovery.

UW–Madison’s first new college in more than four decades will explore and inform technological change for societal benefit.

OVERBURDEN tells a powerful story of resilience and transformation in a landscape shaped by industry yet alive with possibility. Through vivid cinematography and deeply rooted storytelling, the film f...

Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor, on why the continent is warming faster than any other—and adapting too slowly

The authors assess 133 avoided deforestation projects for their ability to safeguard forest ecological integrity. While some projects maintain integrity, most show variable outcomes, with mixed, negli...

The summer cycling season has yet to feel the consequences of rising temperatures, but it seems like it's only a matter of time before races are affected

The Commons is the flagship publication for alumni and friends of UW–Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

WASHINGTON—Admitting that his prior beliefs regarding conflagrations had been formed out of ignorance, longtime U.S. Forest Service icon Smokey Bear issued a statement Monday claiming that his views o...

It’s expected to cost around $380-million to host six games in Toronto, while hosting costs could top $700-million in Vancouver

Ahead of the release of Backrooms, we invite you to lose yourself in our list of the most terrifying – and most inviting – hallway scenes in cinema

The Paris Commune ended in the early afternoon of May 28th 1871, but its legacy lives on. In Quentin Deluermoz's newly translated history of the commune, he shows how the Paris Commune reverberated ar...

At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to save money and reorganize the newsroom.

Think EVs don't make sense in cold climates, or that a dirty power grid cancels out the benefits? Researchers find the opposite is true—and that EVs cost no more to own than a comparable gas car almos...

Dynamic pricing of electricity along with price-responsive residential and commercial equipment would lead to a solar-friendly load shape, while reducing peak demand and customer bills, says a report ...

Determinants of electric vehicle emissions savings and costs across locations and individuals, Miotti, Marco, Trancik, Jessika E

The Nelson Institute is going on the road — and we’re taking you with us!

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Rebecca Larson is among 18 faculty members to receive the Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award, which recognizes excellence in research and teaching and provides three years of flexible research fundin...

On a Sunday morning, in mid-May, 1977, my friend Garth and I were hanging out in his basement and we came across a full-page ad in the Denver Post for a new movie release, one that made our jaws dr…

$100 million in philanthropic support and a significant campus investment, including 50 new faculty positions, will support research, education and innovation