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Monday, July 22, was Climate Emergency Day. Young people joined a chorus of people in cities around the world — calling for climate action. That includes a group that gathered in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Benji Backer, an Appleton, Wisconsin native and founder of the American Conservation Coalition, argues Republicans and Democrats will have to work together to tackle climate change.
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Folks living near Lake Superior have their eyes on an issue some fear could damage their regions water-rich ecosystems: the rerouting of a crude oil pipeline.
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A Bubbler Talk listener asks how Lake Michigan often has several shades of blue at once.
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As climate change fuels more wildfires, last year's spate of air quality alerts led state agencies to make changes and build new partnerships in anticipation of more smoky summers.
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With the presidential and various state and local elections on the horizon, we hear from Milwaukee area voters who are concerned about environmental challenges and what candidates will do to tackle them. This segment begins a new series we're calling "Politics through the Prism of the Environment."
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Southern Wisconsin is home to Brood XIII, one of the two broods of periodical cicadas emerging this summer.
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This year, the spring fire season took off in mid-February — early and fast, after a warm, dry winter.
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A UWM scientist has been monitoring shrubs along with trees in Downer Woods since 2017. Now her research is being folded in with that of scientists across the Great Lakes. Together, they're exploring stresses being felt by ecosystems within the basin.
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Mannequins help researchers show the public what ticks look like in context, on a body — something that close-ups and microscope images can't do.