Wisconsin

Local Barley Becomes Local Booze at a Wisconsin Distillery Prioritizing Ag Sustainability

Farmers, distillers and other businesses are taking part in a “grain to glass” sourcing system that eliminates waste and keeps agriculture business within communities.

By Sarah Mattalian

Wisconsin Tribes Have Helped the Lake Sturgeon Recover. Climate Change Is Stressing Its Ability to Adapt.

By Stefan Lovgren

As the Data Center Boom Ramps Up in the Rural Midwest, What Should Communities Expect?

By Alexia Underwood

One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Networks Is Buried Beneath a Corporate Campus in Rural Wisconsin

By Phil McKenna

Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To.

By Anika Jane Beamer

15 Children in Wisconsin File the Latest Youth Lawsuit Citing Climate Dangers

By Dana Drugmand

As Politicians Quarrel Over Wildfire Smoke, Research on Its Health Impacts Piles Up

By Kiley Price

It Just Got Easier to Build Nuclear Power Plants in Wisconsin

By Carrie Klein

Trump’s Latest USDA Cuts Undermine His Plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’

By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist

Opting for Coexistence: Some Wisconsin Landowners Learn To Live With Beavers

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch

How Climate Change Is Complicating a Beloved Midwest Pastime: Ice Fishing

By Kristoffer Tigue

An Enbridge Oil Spill in Wisconsin Is Eroding Trust as the Fight Over Line 5 Continues

By Kristoffer Tigue

Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

After Initial Permits Are Granted, Activists Worry About Impacts of Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute in Northern Wisconsin

By Lydia Larsen

‘Bad River,’ About a Tribe’s David vs. Goliath Pipeline Fight, Highlights the Power of Long-Term Thinking

By Victoria St. Martin, Phil McKenna

On the Wisconsin-Iowa Border, the Mississippi River Is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds

By Madeline Heim and Frank Vaisvilas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This Historic Ship Runs on Coal. Can It Find a New Way Forward?

By Phil McKenna

The Fate of Thousands of US Dams Hangs in the Balance, Leaving Rural Communities With Hard Choices

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

‘It’s Just No Place for an Oil Pipeline’: A Wisconsin Tribe Continues Its Fight to Remove a 71-Year-Old Line From a Pristine Place

By Phil McKenna