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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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The world lost two-thirds of its wildlife in 50 years. We are to blame

The world lost two-thirds of its wildlife in 50 years. We are to blame

Human activities are causing an "unprecedented" and alarming decline in wildlife populations around the world, a new report warns. It says the staggering loss ultimately threatens human life as well.
by Nathan Rott

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Small farmers challenge conventional agriculture in Pineland Sands

Small farmers challenge conventional agriculture in Pineland Sands

One farmer's plans to irrigate his land to grow crops has triggered a legal challenge by organic farmers and clean water advocates. They say traditional agriculture is not a good fit for the sandy soil, and they envision a different way of farming in this region.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Gusty winds pose continued wildfire threats in California

Gusty winds pose continued wildfire threats in California

Wildfires are raging unchecked throughout California, and authorities say gusty winds could drive flames with new ferocity. Diablo winds in the north and Santa Ana winds in the south are forecast into Wednesday in areas where blazes already have grown explosively.
by The Associated Press

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Widened by erosion, iconic Mississippi headwaters to undergo restoration work

Widened by erosion, iconic Mississippi headwaters to undergo restoration work

More than half a million people visit the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Itasca State Park every year, most stepping along the path of stones to cross the river at its humble beginnings. Over decades, those many feet have eroded the shoreline.
by Kirsti Marohn

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The annual State Fair weather quiz with Mark Seeley is on

The annual State Fair weather quiz with Mark Seeley is on

The Minnesota State Fair might be canceled, but there’s no way we would have let the annual weather quiz with Mark Seeley go on hiatus for a pandemic. For the 24th year in a row, Seeley took listeners’ questions about the weather and quizzed them back.
by Gary Eichten and Mark Seeley

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Judge largely backs state regulators’ handling of PolyMet permit

Judge largely backs state regulators’ handling of PolyMet permit

Ramsey County District Court Judge John Guthmann largely sided with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s handling of a key water quality permit for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. But the judge ruled that the MPCA improperly destroyed documents critical to the case.
by Dan Kraker

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Study: No deadly Legionella strain in closed U of M buildings’ water

Study: No deadly Legionella strain in closed U of M buildings’ water

This spring, as COVID-19 sent people across the University of Minnesota to work and learn from home, two professors launched a study to look for the presence of Legionella bacteria in the water supplies of buildings on the university’s Twin Cities campuses.
by Kirsti Marohn

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In Duluth, shoring up Superior's encroachment on Park Point

In Duluth, shoring up Superior's encroachment on Park Point

For the past several years, cities and property owners along the Great Lakes have been battered by big storms and high water. That includes the Duluth neighborhood of Park Point, the 7-mile sand spit that juts out into Lake Superior from downtown. Now there’s an effort to rebuild it. 
by Dan Kraker

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Audio postcard: A spot of blue on the prairie

Audio postcard: A spot of blue on the prairie

We have been getting periodic reports from local wildflower enthusiasts Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo this summer. The season is starting to wind down, but they sent us an audio postcard this week from the Iron Horse Prairie Scientific and Natural Area in Hayfield, Minn.

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