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Environmental News

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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Our future on a hotter planet means more climate disasters happening simultaneously

Our future on a hotter planet means more climate disasters happening simultaneously

Simultaneous disasters, like the wildfires in California and Hurricane Ida this week, are happening more often as the planet heats up. Emergency managers are preparing for that future.
by Dan Charles

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For 2 weeks every August, Duluth is the nighthawk capital of the world

For 2 weeks every August, Duluth is the nighthawk capital of the world

For two weeks at the end of every summer, thousands of nighthawks fly over Duluth during their marathon migration to South America. It's the largest known migratory concentration of the common nighthawk in the world.
by Dan Kraker

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Zebra mussel larvae found in Rainy Lake

Zebra mussel larvae found in Rainy Lake

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources confirmed Wednesday that zebra mussel larvae were found in four of five water samples taken in July from the 360-square-mile lake near International Falls.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Advocates hope White Earth wild rice case will boost 'rights of nature'

Advocates hope White Earth wild rice case will boost 'rights of nature'

The White Earth Nation filed suit last month against the state Department of Natural Resources in tribal court, contending a water use permit for the Enbridge Energy Line 3 pipeline puts wild rice at risk. Experts say the case for protecting wild rice in Minnesota could be important for the larger rights of nature movement.
by Dan Gunderson

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As Line 3 nears completion, pipeline battles are far from over

As Line 3 nears completion, pipeline battles are far from over

Opponents don't plan to give up trying to stop the pipeline, even as their legal options dwindle. They plan to continue contesting Line 3 through protests and in court even after oil begins flowing from Alberta, Canada.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Animal rights groups sue to stop Wisconsin wolf hunt

Animal rights groups sue to stop Wisconsin wolf hunt

A coalition of animal rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to stop Wisconsin's wolf hunt this fall and invalidate a state law mandating annual hunts, arguing the statutes don't give wildlife officials any leeway to consider population estimates.
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'Forever chemicals' found in groundwater near military bases

'Forever chemicals' found in groundwater near military bases

An environmental group says groundwater around at least six military installations in the Great Lakes region is contaminated with high levels of PFAS chemicals. The Environmental Working Group says Pentagon records show the compounds have been discovered in water around bases in Michigan, New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Wildfire forces thousands from popular Lake Tahoe resort

Wildfire forces thousands from popular Lake Tahoe resort

Thousands of people rushed to get out of South Lake Tahoe as the entire tourist resort city came under evacuation orders and wildfire raced toward the large freshwater lake of Lake Tahoe, which straddles California and Nevada.
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