WUWM environment

Spring is a thrilling season for people who love spotting migrating birds. At a recent bird banding event in central Wisconsin, more than two dozen species were identified in a single day.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision last week has water quality and wetland advocates around the country concerned, including here in Wisconsin. The Court narrowed the scope of federally protected wetlands. UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences professor Melissa Scanlan sheds light on the ruling and what it could mean for Wisconsin.

For the last 15 years, Charlie Tennessn has been trying to grow as much food as he consumes on his four-acre homestead. His new film, Night of the Living Harvest, is premiering this week at the Times Cinema in Wauwatosa, and he is hoping it inspires others to homestead.

EPA Secretary Michael Regan chose Milwaukee to announce hundreds of millions of funding to clean up brownfields across the country Thursday. Regan called the 30th Street Corridor parcel he visited "a shining star opportunity."

UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences' students study complex freshwater ecosystems, weather patterns, and climate change and then apply that knowledge to real-world problems. One of the school's founding faculty members, Rebecca Klaper, is about to become the school's dean.

GOP lawmakers unveil a $125 million proposal. But Democrats wonder how much money will reach cities.

Black bear sightings are on the rise in southern Wisconsin. Over the last couple of weeks, black bears have been spotted in Waukesha County, Mount Horeb and in the Madison area.

The SOS Save Our Songbirds campaign puts the spotlight on the plight of songbirds and how people can help reverse their decline from their own homes.

Milwaukee’s rivers, which converge downtown and feed into Lake Michigan, were once dumping grounds for industrial pollution. But this spring and summer, recreation and commerce will have to share sections of the lower Milwaukee River with dredging equipment.

It’s not unusual for artists to use their talents to evoke a certain emotion or create a connection. Writers, of course, do too. A couple in far northern Wisconsin fuse the two.