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Number of human-biting mosquitoes in Twin Cities is low ⁠— for now
The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District in St. Paul began this year's surveillance of mosquitoes and black flies and found that, although there are a lot of mosquito larvae, there aren’t many adult mosquitoes out biting people.
Border restrictions keep flooded cabin and resort owners away from their properties
Dozens of cabin and resort owners with property on the Canadian side of northern Minnesota’s Sand Point and Namakan lakes can’t legally access their properties to try to protect them from ongoing flooding, because of restrictions on crossing the international border.
Minnesota moves to regulate carbon dioxide pipelines
The move comes as two companies are planning to construct pipelines to collect carbon dioxide emissions from ethanol plants in Minnesota and surrounding states and store the CO2 underground in North Dakota and Illinois.
Eliminating fossil fuel air pollution would save about 50,000 lives, study finds
Burning oil, coal and other fossil fuels releases plumes of tiny, dangerous particles. A new study estimates that eliminating that pollution would save about 50,000 lives in the U.S. each year.