By digging, burrowing, eating, stomping, and piling, wild animals expend at least 76,000 gigajoules per year reshaping the planet, the equivalent of half a million extreme floods.

Chippewa County is one of the nation’s first Biofuel Development Opportunity Zones, a designation signalling readiness for bio-based manufacturing. With the frac sand industry in retreat, the goal is to leverage the massive rail terminals left behind to capitalize on the county’s rich agricultural resources. 

Renewable sources accounted for a record-high 10% of Wisconsin's electricity output in 2024 as a raft of new projects helped double solar energy output.

Fox, the Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry and chair of the biochemistry department, was among four faculty selected by their peers as winners of the 2025 Hilldale Award.

In a Final Four like no other, scientists from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center met Tuesday in the Wisconsin Energy Institute to represent four tiny yet mighty bioenergy champions.

When it comes to providing affordable, reliable, and clean electricity — and empowering citizens to share the economic benefits — Wisconsin is failing.

University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists used advanced microscopic imaging to better understand the structure and function of these granules and their roles in microbial biology. They found that stunting cell growth caused bacteria to accumulate significantly more PHB and PP concentrated in larger granules, suggesting the organelles play a role in stress response.