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As of Friday afternoon, the fire danger level across the Northwoods was high or very high.
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Governor Tony Evers stopped in Marshfield to speak with local leaders, and take a look at the city's new temporary PFAS treatment plant. He said that republicans in the state legislature need to free up the $125 million dollars set aside in the state budget for PFAS relief
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Researchers explore use of aerial imagery and artificial intelligence to monitor a farming practice that threatens water.
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Emerald Ash Borer has decimated ash tree population in the U.S. since the early 2000s.The invasive species has slowly been making its way north in Wisconsin and Michigan.Researchers with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station are working to get the species under control while also trying to restore ecosystems that have been destroy by them.
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Emerald Ash Borer has decimated ash tree population in the U.S. since the early 2000s.The invasive species has slowly been making its way north in Wisconsin and Michigan.Researchers with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station are working to get the species under control while also trying to restore ecosystems that have been destroy by them.
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Fewer fish and more algae? Scientists seek to understand impacts of historic lack of Great Lakes iceAs climate change accelerates, scientists are scrambling to understand how iceless winters could affect the world's largest freshwater system
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A state appeals court says environmental regulators can't force landowners to clean up pollution from so-called forever chemicals without first implementing specific limits on contamination. The 2nd District Court of Appeals' 2-1 ruling Wednesday all but eliminates the Department of Natural Resources' authority to unilaterally mandate reporting PFAS contamination in groundwater and force responsible parties to clean it up.
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Maple sap typically runs from mid-March to mid-April in Wisconsin.This year, the tapping process started almost a month ago in the Northwoods.WXPR’s Katie Thoresen spoke with a maple syrup producer who has been doing it for more than 40 years to see how this unusual winter has stood out.
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Decades’ worth of toxic "forever chemicals" are sitting in landfills, presenting a new contaminant for waste handlers who didn’t create the pollution, but now find themselves awash in it. A few companies are trying to filter PFAS out of their leachate, and researchers are studying whether it might escape from trash into the air.
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Most school and transit buses on the nation's roadways these days are still powered by diesel engines but in Wisconsin and elsewhere, there is hope about the push to switch to electric fleets
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Officials from the Wisconsin DNR say that the weather has been causing a chain reaction that affects how young walleye get their food, which leads to less of them living to adulthood
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The primary goal of the proposed management plan is to maintain Spur Lake as a shallow, muck-bottomed lake for wildlife, with a special emphasis on re-establishing wild rice