The Madison Fire Department Lake Rescue Team was sent to Lake Mendota near Picnic Point shortly before 4 p.m. and launched ...

MADISON, Wis. -- A person was rescued from their vehicle after it broke through the ice on Lake Mendota Thursday. At around 3 ...

The Madison Fire Department is responding to Lake Mendota on reports of a vehicle in the water Thursday afternoon.

The Madison Fire Department responded to Lake Mendota near Picnic Point on Wednesday, Jan. 16, for an occupied vehicle that ...

Unpredictable temperatures have meant that, beneath its semi-solid ice surface, Lake Mendota has kind of been in a state of ...

Lake Mendota bacteria evolve rapidly with seasonal changes, adapting to conditions yet returning yearly to near-original ...

In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous ...

The team analyzed genetic material from microbes in a one-of-a-kind archive of water samples collected over 20 years from ...

The team used a one-of-a-kind archive of 471 water samples collected over 20 years from Lake Mendota by McMahon, Rohwer and other UW-Madison researchers as part of long-term monitoring projects ...

According to a new study in Nature Microbiology, researchers found that through the course of a year, most individual species of bacteria in Lake Mendota rapidly evolved, apparently in response to ...

Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; and ...