L&S News  Tag: Climate Change

The state’s record-breaking warm winter prompts concern about its natural resources in the face of global climate change.

Professor of Geography speculates on the impacts of a warming winter to plants, wildlife and human activity in the Northern United States.

The Professor of Geoscience's latest findings focus on fossilized coral reefs in the Seychelle Islands, which show how high sea levels rose centuries ago--and, in an era of climate change, how high they might rise again.

Researchers like Bailey Murphy are looking to Wisconsin forests as a potential solution to maximize carbon sequestration.

Professor of sociology touts the advantages of managed retreat to prevent communities from being destroyed by environmental disasters.

La Follette graduate student Jenna Greene talks about her experience on UW's Earth RepAIR team competing for the Elon Musk-funded XPRIZE.

La Follette School of Public Affairs researcher says the report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests the problem is getting worse, but the potential solutions are getting better.

Sociology graduate student Emily Burke gets the chance to bend the ear of Pope Francis.

Professor of Geoscience Clay Kelly is part of a research project that identified Foraminifera, a single-celled organism that was wiped out tens of millions of years ago by a spike in global temperatures.