Just as Wisconsin farmers were starting to see an uptick in economic optimism at the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic swept away many of those hopes.

UW-Madison economist Ian Coxhead said during a panel discussion on June 11 that the economic recovery from such a blow will be long and difficult for farmers here.

Much effort is put into framing and conceptualizing the effective discussion of science and its relationship with society. To meet the increasing need for scientific understanding amongst the general public, the field of science communication has vastly expanded in recent years.

Farmers and utilities are burning methane for energy — and curtailing a powerful greenhouse gas in the process.

How long it might take to recover, and what the new face of farming might look like in a world where the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to linger into next year, if not longer, were the topics on the table during a Zoom call organized by WisPolitics and its offshoot, WisBusiness.

LONDON - The arrival of low cost sunlight-to-energy conversion has come decades earlier than predicted, pushing a clean energy system transition ahead at an encouraging pace.

The price of solar, averaging about 0.05 USD/kWh, has reached the low that the International Energy Agency (IEA) previously predicted would not arrive until the middle of the century.