Babies born today will grow up in a world where climate change is part of the background of everyday life. Their summers will be hotter, their cities will look greener and more high-tech, and their ...

Late last month, Hurricane Melissa pummeled Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. It was one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record, and yet it’s just one among many severe and devastating ...

As a child of the 80s, I spent a whole lot of time worrying about the ozone layer and admonishing my mother for her aerosol hairspray. But the concern was kind of amorphous. It’s not like there was ...

As the storms hit our community this week, and people were being warned to expect cold, ice and power outages, you likely heard some friends and neighbors say something like “Ha! See what a bunch of ...

Researchers from UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison are studying the link between air pollution and asthma-related school nurse visits at MPS. They'll use satellite data to estimate nitrogen dioxide levels ...