Spring is in the air — which means nest-making season is upon us! For this month’s Chirp Chat, Lake Effect’s Xcaret Nuñez spoke with Holly Walz, a park naturalist with the Wehr Nature Center, about the role nests play and the different types of nests that birds in Wisconsin make.

The utility says the large plant is a needed step toward phasing out use of coal at its complex along Lake Michigan.

Here’s a mystery for you: Who is leaving colorful, wood-carved birds in not-so-obvious places along Milwaukee’s Oak Leaf Trail? No one knows, but locals love them.

Mineral Point is a small town in southwest Wisconsin with a population of about 2,500. It has a rich history of lead mining and Cornish immigrants who settled there in the 1800s, and many of its historic buildings remain. Family histories stretch back generations, but people continue to be drawn to put down roots and work there. We meet three of them—a bookstore owner, a pastry chef, and a publisher. Their shared passion for supporting their adopted community and region resulted in a book, "The Wisconsin Whey: Cheesemaking in the Driftless."

Trees provide lots of benefits to us and our environment, from capturing carbon to fueling ecosystems. We look at initiatives in Walworth County and Waukesha that aim to cultivate healthy and productive canopies.

The USDA has restored some, but not all, federal support for agriculture programs in Wisconsin.

Bubbler Talk listener, Sophia Heyn discovered the geological history of quarrying in Estabrook Park while researching a school assignment. We went together to discover the history of the riverbed.

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ocean floor. That’s where you can find one UWM professor.

The Climate Accountability Act is proposing cutting Wisconsin’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

We’re about to bump into spring, but you might still see crews on city streets and boulevards pruning trees. Winter is prime pruning season. It’s one of the ways people are working to a maintain a sustainable canopy.