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

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

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 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 ...

According to a study published in the Nature Microbiology journal, bacterial populations in Lake Mendota adapt to environmental shifts caused by the lake's seasonal changes. Researchers examined ...

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 ...