environment

Late last year, 400 gallons of oil drained into the Menomonee River after an accident at Komatsu Mining Corp on the city’s south side. The oil began to saturate the water, ending up in the Milwaukee River before anyone from the city was made aware of what happened. We look at the company's cleanup efforts, public accountability, and the enduring impact of the spill.

Need an excuse not to cut your grass? Here's one — scientists say leaving your lawn a little longer in the spring can actually help bees and other pollinators. Appleton is now in its third year of No Mow May, with hundreds of homeowners being bee-friendly all month.

The Democratic incumbent Governor uses an executive order to bypass GOP opposition.

The stink bug has become an increasingly common sight in Milwaukee homes. Russ Groves, the chair of the Department of Entomology at UW-Madison shares why.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of an effort to save the peregrine falcon population in Wisconsin. We Energies has been working with the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Project to bring back the raptors from the edge of extinction since the 1990s, when nest boxes were installed on the power plants.

The Department of Natural Resources policy board voted 6-1 on Wednesday to set the limits for PFAS chemicals in drinking water at 70 parts per trillion and voted unanimously to set the limits at 8 ppt for most surface waters that can support fish.

The caviar trading ring that shook the Wisconsin DNR made big headlines in 2021, but the intricacies of the scandal were often lost in the headlines. The scandal involved avid sturgeon conservationists, local fishing clubs and sturgeon eggs that were donated to the DNR.

Robert Ragotzkie died recently at the age of 97. His legacy includes bringing Wisconsin Sea Grant to life and mentoring countless Great Lakes scientists along the way.

Wisconsin advocates of standards that would regulate two PFAS chemicals hope they will pave the way to test for and mitigate thousands of the manufactured chemicals that can impact humans and other life.

The mining company Komatsu has taken responsibility for a 400 gallon oil spill and its clean up, but worries persist about the oil's impact on the river and the life in and around it.