environment

As climate change causes destruction in other parts of the county, the Great Lakes region may become flooded with new residents. We look at the financial and cultural impact climate change may have in our area.

There are indications in Wisconsin of some early diversity among buyers of electric vehicles and gas-electric hybrids.

So far in 2021, counties across southeast Wisconsin have only seen around half of the amount of rain expected in a normal year.

Federal officials have designated a huge swath of Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan coastline as a National Marine Sanctuary to protect historic shipwrecks in the area.

The Wisconsin Assembly is set to vote on a bill that would create a new $10 million grant program to help communities clean up contamination from “forever chemicals” known as PFAS but would ban them from suing those responsible for the pollution.

The cultural relevance of maple syrup goes further than a sweet treat for Anishinaabe people in Wisconsin. The process of extracting sap from sugar maples is a long held tradition used to teach important lessons.

The rapidly eroding Lake Michigan shoreline is also raising questions about the future of the controversial project adjacent to Kohler-Andrae State Park.

There are calls for beavers to return — not for their fur — but for the potential impact they could have on flood mitigation in the Milwaukee River watershed.

A new documentary from filmmaker Joe Brown follows Rod Coronado and his group, Wolf Patrol, during their work to monitor hunting practices that threaten wolves and to promote wolf preservation in Wisconsin.

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust is a documentary about the difficult and complex history of the valley of Payahuunadü, or Owens Valley, in California and the people who continue to fight for the land to this day.