Professor recognized for work on climate change and insurance
Dan Anderson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor, has won a $10,000 stipend for his paper on risk management as it relates to global warming and climate change. The stipend was...
View ArticleNew certificate prepares students for global change
Graduate students intrigued by large-scale environmental challenges like climate change will have a new opportunity this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Nelson Institute for...
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Hungry insects leave clues to impacts of climate change
Harshaw, Wis. — A boardwalk beckons into the stand of trees, pleasantly cool on a hot summer morning — where it becomes immediately clear that this is no ordinary forest. Odd metal and plastic...
View ArticleEnvironmental filmmakers Helfand, Siegel are fall guest artists
The Arts Institute is pleased to welcome artist in residence Judith Helfand and guest artist Sarita Siegel to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall 2007. The Arts Institute Interdisciplinary...
View ArticleUW-Madison faculty contributed to global warming reports that led to Gore’s...
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty made significant contributions in developing the reports on the implications of global warming that led today (Oct. 12) to the awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace...
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Illustration: The ethical dimensions of global climate change
The two world maps schematically represent the contribution of different nations to global warming, as measured in atmospheric carbon output (top) and the health effects of global warming as measured...
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Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis
The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the...
View ArticlePost-Kyoto environmental discussion to take place at UW-Madison
This December in Bali, new international talks will be launched to determine the successor of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. The science has spoken. We know the problem is real, but how do we...
View ArticleFounder of carbon-offset firm to speak
Like many environmental calamities, climate change may pose its greatest societal threat to groups that are already disadvantaged. But to Michel Gelobter, responding to global warming presents a...
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Warming ‘seesaw’ turns extra sunlight into global greenhouse
As Earth’s orbit brought it close to the sun more than 20,000 years ago, intense summer rays melted Northern Hemisphere glaciers, like this one in Greenland. Computer climate models have confirmed...
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