Researchers have found that “new” mercury added to a lake during a study got assimilated into the food chain faster than “old” mercury that already existed in the environment.

September 17, 2012 By Aaron R. Conklin Stroll through any standard-issue suburban subdivision and you’ll likely key in on the familiar hallmarks: large homes with large driveways, ...

WRI researcher Craig Benson studies the effectiveness of cover and barrier systems. "Nature is the big equalizer."

University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader named Jim Hurley to be the next director of the Water Resources Institute. He assumes the position on May 1.

WRI researcher Zhaohui “George” Li, professor and chair of the Geosciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, has been able to characterize the ways in which antibiotics are absorbed into the two most common types of clay minerals in Wisconsin soil, where they begin to interact with—and possibly mutate—soil microbes.

Groundwater Awareness Week is March 11 - 17

Measuring leachate and nutrients in groundwater recharge across eight different model cropping systems could lead to a database that could guide future biofuel cropping efforts.

After three-plus decades of guiding UW WRI and its sister organization, Sea Grant, in new and exciting directions, Anders Andren announces his retirement and reflects on his sizable accomplishments.

Read a perspective about invasive species that fill our inland waters and the Great Lakes. This is an essay from the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant's aquatic invasive species outreach specialist.