Zuzana Burivalova, a tropical forest ecologist who uses sound to understand the health of forests globally, was recently named the winner of the 2026 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. The ...

The Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education approved renaming Conrad A. Elvehjem Elementary School after SRSSW alumna Ada Deer ’56. Ada Deer, who died in 2023, was a Menominee leader, ...

Trade blockages in the Persian Gulf have reminded the world that there are forces as great as or greater than technology and globalization.

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Gabriel Shapiro and David Skrovanek: Our transmission grid is outdated and strained by climate change, but technological advances can help bring down costs.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

The problem of bringing a play to the screen has been approached in many ways, often disastrously, but it is hard to recall a film that solves it so

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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...