What will it take to make a cross-country drive in a light duty vehicle, the kind of car or truck many of us drive every day, a low-carbon pursuit?

On October 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the lowering of its national ambient air quality ozone standard (NAAQS) from 75 to 70 parts per billion (ppb).

Srivatsan “Vatsan” Raman joined the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry as an assistant professor in August. Read this Q&A with Professor Raman with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

For many of us, the thought of seaweed conjures up the slippery green strands we reluctantly wade through to reach the more inviting depths of our favorite summer swimming hole.

Extreme summers like that of 2012 — which saw record temperatures in cities across the U.S. — may be atypical, but experts say they will return, especially as the planet warms under climate change. And as they do, cities will be especially vulnerable.

Not acting on climate change now could have a global price tag of $44 trillion, according to U.S. banking giant Citigroup.

“The Energy Summit is about bringing different people together to think through some of the most difficult challenges of our time,” says Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of environmental studies and chair of this year’s Energy Summit.