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Wisconsin's climate is changing before our eyes

2013-04-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Express Milwaukee: Milwaukeeans have been shivering and wet this past week, so its easy to believe that our soggy, cold April means that global warming or climate change isnt a serious threat. But unfortunately it is. This past weeks heavy rains arent necessarily caused by global warming, but they do fit the long-term climate trends Wisconsin is experiencing. Weather is always going to be variable, said Matt Howard, director of the citys Office of Environmental Sustainability. But when youve got an...

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Do You Think You Could Buy an Ad for our Yearbook?

2013-04-15 19:54:28| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

This is the question many seniors on yearbook staffs are asking local businesses about now.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Turn off the screens at our concerts

2013-04-10 01:02:43| CNET News.com

The indie rock band gets tired of staring into a sea of screens at its shows and decides to do something about it. [Read more]

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The Drought Is Drying Up All Our Ethanol

2013-04-03 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Desk: After getting slammed last summer, ethanol producers are hoping to catch a break--but their fate is far from settled. Bill Pracht has bad memories of last summer. "The drought was so bad here that the corn was just decimated," he recalls of the farm country around Garnett, Kan., where he oversees East Kansas Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant. "Many fields were zero." In August, corn prices hit their highest level ever, driven mainly by the severe drought that crippled America`s corn belt. By October,...

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