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MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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Biden: Nevada site sacred to tribes to be national monument

Biden: Nevada site sacred to tribes to be national monument

The site, to be designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, would encompass a rugged and dry triangular-shaped area roughly from the Colorado River — marking the Arizona state line — to California and the California Mojave National Preserve. The area is mostly undeveloped landscape dotted with Joshua trees and bighorn sheep migration routes.
by The Associated Press

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Here is what scientists are doing to save Florida's coral reef before it's too late

Here is what scientists are doing to save Florida's coral reef before it's too late

Florida's barrier reef has lost 95 percent of its coral over the last half-century. Researchers, activists and government agencies are working to restore the reefs and ensure their long-term survival.
by Greg Allen

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Australia argues against 'endangered' Barrier Reef status

Australia argues against 'endangered' Barrier Reef status

Australia's environment minister says her government will urge against the U.N. adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered sites, saying worries are a reflection of the previous government.
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa starts to erupt, sending ash nearby

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa starts to erupt, sending ash nearby

The world’s largest active volcano was erupting Monday. Officials said that Mauna Loa wasn’t immediately threatening communities on Hawaii’s Big Island but people should be prepared for worse. The U.S. Geological Survey says the eruption began late Sunday night in the volcano on the Big Island. The agency warned residents at risk from Mauna Loa's lava flows to review their eruption preparations. Scientists had been on alert because of a recent spike in earthquakes at the summit of the volcano, which last erupted in 1984.
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Work of pioneering Arctic explorer from Minnesota gains new relevance in tracking effects of climate change

Work of pioneering Arctic explorer from Minnesota gains new relevance in tracking effects of climate change

Canadian researchers have been traveling to Minnesota to view plant specimens gathered in the Arctic decades ago by a boot-clomping, chain-smoking librarian who grew up near Duluth. The work of Margaret Oldenburg is finding new relevance as a way to better understand the effects of climate change.
by Tim Nelson

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Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don't most forecasts mention it?

Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don't most forecasts mention it?

Scientists and forecasters are trying to figure out how to talk about the connection between climate change and severe weather. It could have big impacts on how people think about global warming.
by Rebecca Hersher

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