Wisconsin Public Radio • 2nd March 2020 Dairy State: Cheese Producers Wrestle With Climate Change Amid Already Struggling Industry Wisconsin's dairy industry is integral to the state’s identity, but the industry is struggling — and the threat of climate change hasn’t helped.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 2nd March 2020 An 'Indicator Plant': Wild Rice Struggles To Survive In A Changing Climate Manoomin, or wild rice, has been a spiritual, cultural and culinary staple for Wisconsin tribes for thousands of years. But experts estimate it’s lost nearly half of its historic range and say climate change is likely the greatest threat it’s ever faced.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 2nd March 2020 Potato Farmers Grapple With Climate Change's Impact On Nitrogen Management The light, sandy soil of Wisconsin’s Central Sands region is well-suited for growing potatoes — a root crop that needs an ample supply of water, but is prone to rot and disease. Yet that sandy soil and potato’s high nutrient demand also exposes the region’s groundwater to nitrate contamination.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 2nd March 2020 From Farm To Pint, How Will Beer Weather Climate Change? Beer holds a status like little else in Wisconsin. For generations, Wisconsin has been a leader in beer production — and as palates have gravitated toward craft beers in the last decade, craft breweries have exploded in number.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 2nd March 2020 Cranberries, Wisconsin's Most Profitable Fruit, Face An Uncertain Future More than half of the world’s supply of cranberries comes from Wisconsin. One of only three native crops to be commercially cultivated in the United States, cranberries have adapted alongside Wisconsin’s climate.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 2nd March 2020 As Wisconsin Lakes Warm, Walleye Are Feeling The Heat Walleye are a staple of Native American diets, beloved for Friday night fish fries and a popular sporting fish. But the cool-water fish’s populations have been declining for decades, at the same time as largemouth bass have been thriving.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 9th December 2020 'It's Stunning': Wisconsin Nurses On Working The Front Lines Of The Pandemic Day in and day out since March, intensive care unit nurse Laura Roth has taken care of COVID-19 patients at a hospital in the Milwaukee area. Roth has watched colleagues get so disheartened by the experience that they request transfers, or leave the profession entirely.
Wisconsin Life • 26th June 2020 An Industry On The Line: Commercial Fishing The Mighty Mississippi Mike Valley is perched in his fishing boat, taking in the scene around him. It’s idyllic — birds are chirping and small waves gently brush up against the side of the boat. It’s mid-July and one of the hottest days of the year.
WisconsinWatch.org • 7th March 2016 As Wells Go Deeper, Radium Levels Rise In State Tap Water In 2014, the village of Sussex in southeast Wisconsin made a dismaying discovery. The radioactive element radium, a contaminant that occurs naturally in bedrock throughout the region, had seeped into two of its seven water wells.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 18th September 2019 The Regal Fritillary Is In Danger Of Going Extinct. Why Haven't More People Heard Of It? To find out more about this rare insect, I traveled to a restored prairie outside of Barneveld in southwestern Wisconsin with my guide Rich Henderson, a board member of the Prairie Enthusiasts and a former state Department of Natural Resources ecologist.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 27th April 2020 COVID-19 Is Driving A Dramatic Greenhouse Gas Decline, But How Is Renewable Energy Faring? As the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world economy to a standstill, greenhouse gas emissions have plummeted, seeing the biggest drop since World War II and producing striking satellite images of improved air quality in heavily polluted areas like Wuhan, China and Southern California.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 16th October 2018 Legacy Mine Waste Threatening Lake Superior's Buffalo Reef The Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was home to more than 140 copper mines at the end of the 19th century. The copper is long gone, but the legacy of the mining boom has left a dark mark on the land: sediment that is slowly clogging an important reef in Lake Superior.
Wisconsin Life • 4th December 2020 Tilia The Conservation Dog: Sniffing Out Invasives In Wisconsin Every spring, when the wild parsnip sprouts and the elusive salamanders begin to breed, the team at Mequon Nature Preserve calls in backup to do important conservation and restoration work.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 10th September 2019 30 Years Ago, Biologists Set Out To Restore Trumpeter Swan In Wisconsin. Today, They're Thriving Thirty years ago, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources biologists Randy Jurewicz and Sumner Matteson got on a plane to Fairbanks, Alaska with a goal: to bring the trumpeter swan back to Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 15th April 2020 Advocates Raise Alarm About Migrant Worker Safety Amid COVID-19 Every spring, about 5,000 migrant workers make their way to Wisconsin to work in agriculture. Many come from Texas and Florida and work on farms across the state helping farmers harvest crops and process food during the peak season from late April through the fall.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 7th January 2019 For Women In Rural Wisconsin, Access To Maternity Care Is Often A Long Drive Away When Beth Miller went into labor with her second child in February, she thought she was going to have him in her car. Miller lives in Trego, a town of about 900 people, 45 minutes north of her provider at the Mayo Clinic in Barron.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 27th April 2020 As Roughly 1.5K Turned Out For Stay-At-Home Protest, Epidemiologist Saw 'Vehicle' For Viral Spread On Friday, roughly 1,500 people gathered at the state Capitol to protest Wisconsin’s stay-at-home order, accusing Gov. Tony Evers of paralyzing the economy and violating personal freedoms.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 1st May 2020 'Far-Reaching' Ramifications Of The Coronavirus Will Leave A Mark On The Restaurant Industry Chef Tyler Sailsbery, owner of The Black Sheep restaurant in Whitewater, is worried about how many chefs will want to continue after the coronavirus pandemic ends. Things were tough in the industry before the outbreak happened, and when the outbreak began to hit Wisconsin, he watched his sales tumble 70 percent.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 28th March 2019 Cannibal Sandwiches: A Polarizing And Misunderstood Wisconsin Tradition Imagine. It’s the holidays and to quiet your pre-dinner hunger, someone hands you a slice of rye bread topped with a thick spread of fresh raw beef, chopped onion and a sprinkle of salt and pepper.
Wisconsin Public Radio • 1st June 2020 As Economy Reopens, Child Care Providers Grapple With How To Stay Safe, And Afloat Until May 21, Rafat Arain managed to keep her child care center in Milwaukee open as COVID-19 swept through the city.
