Madeline Heim

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wisconsin ski hill owners are feeling the effects of warming winters due to climate change, but many are already adapting to keep business up, University of Wisconsin researchers have found.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers forester Andy Meier walks toward “the boneyard” at Reno Bottoms on the upper Mississippi River near De Soto, Wis., in summer 2023. High water, prolonged flooding, invasive species and tree diseases have been hard on the Mississippi River’s floodplain forests. (Jovanny Hernandez/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Video captures tornado taking shape near Evansville, Wisconsin Record low ice on the Great Lakes.

Next year, I hope to continue this work and marry it with my prior beat, putting a spotlight on the growing ways the environment affects our health.

Even using a narrower definition of a placebo — that it’s a simple saltwater solution — Johnson is wrong.

In picking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, President-elect Donald Trump is elevating a small but

The trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain, known as floodplain forests, have been struggling. Volunteers are working to save them.

According to the Wisconsin State Climatology Office, December 2023 to February 2024 was the warmest winter in the state since it began keeping records in 1895.

The trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain have been overwhelmed by higher water and longer-lasting floods.

Feb. 8 began sunny and unseasonably warm, with Milwaukee setting a record-high temperature for that date of 56 degrees.