Conflicts & Disasters

Where do people move when they’re displaced by climate-fueled natural disasters? A climate journalist joins WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to explain what people get wrong about “climate havens.”

A new exhibit from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum features never-before-seen or rare objects on display to highlight the contributions that Wisconsin veterans make after they leave the military.

The state Senate’s sporting heritage committee is weighing whether to approve, deny or request changes to wolf harvest regulations developed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Robin Washington shares the story of how he learned about his father’s contributions to The Slip Stream – a newspaper for the Casper Army Air Base.

Mahmoud Shayyah was in shock the day the brutal Assad regime fell. Today, his research at UW-Madison studying how war-torn countries can rebuild is ever more important.

Richard Price talks with WPR’s “BETA” about his latest novel. It’s inspired by the tragic true story of a gas leak, an explosion and the collapse of a five-story tenement in East Harlem in 2014. 

Nearly half of Wisconsin’s towns, cities and villages are described as being at “high” or “very high” risk to destructive wildfires, according to the Wisconsin DNR.

Their mission is to support Operation Inherent Resolve, a joint military task force to reduce the threat of the Islamic State terrorist group, better known as ISIS. 

Federal wildlife regulators have denied petitions submitted by hunting groups that sought to remove or reduce protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region and West Coast states.

“This hit home and is very hard as we have and share a special connection with many people, dance groups and the entire New Orleans community,” said Jean Knutson, co-leader of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies.