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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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Lawmaker: Raise fertilizer fees to help pay cost of nitrate pollution

Lawmaker: Raise fertilizer fees to help pay cost of nitrate pollution

DFL Rep. Rick Hansen says farmers should pay higher fees for nitrogen fertilizer, the source of the majority of nitrate contamination in southeast Minnesota. Farm groups oppose the idea.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Forbidden catch, happy ending: Minnesota trapper uses CPR to save wayward marten

Forbidden catch, happy ending: Minnesota trapper uses CPR to save wayward marten

A northern Minnesota trapper recently took the unusual step of giving CPR to an animal caught in a trap. A Department of Natural Resources conservation officer helped release the revived and “very angry” pine marten.
by Dan Gunderson

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Champion musher reacts to 2024 Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon cancellation

Champion musher reacts to 2024 Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon cancellation

Musher Erin Aili and her husband Keith Aili have both won Beargrease along with their award-winning Alaskan Husky sled dogs, who have been diligently training for the race until this disappointing turn of events.
by Cathy Wurzer and Lindsey Seavert

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Minnesota kids love outdoor learning. Lawmakers are paying attention

Minnesota kids love outdoor learning. Lawmakers are paying attention

A recent visit with fifth graders to Wolf Ridge in northeastern Minnesota helps to understand why the state’s outdoor learning centers are popular, and why lawmakers are interested in expanding the idea.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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Amid ongoing lack of snow, Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon organizers cancel this winter's race

Amid ongoing lack of snow, Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon organizers cancel this winter's race

Organizers of northeast Minnesota’s annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon have canceled this winter’s race, amid an unseasonably warm winter and the ongoing lack of snow.
by Andrew Krueger and Dan Kraker

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Minnesota fishing guides cautious due to warm winter conditions

Minnesota fishing guides cautious due to warm winter conditions

Warm temperatures throughout the state have caused some fishing guide services to hold off putting ice houses onto lakes at a time many guides consider to be their most profitable time of the season.
by Mathew Holding Eagle III

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Historic wimpy winter challenges small businesses, outdoor enthusiasts

Historic wimpy winter challenges small businesses, outdoor enthusiasts

The historically warm and snow-free winter thus far across Minnesota is disheartening to skiers, snowmobilers and ice anglers. And it is taking a toll on small businesses that depend on those winter outdoor enthusiasts.
by Dan Kraker

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Dakota women leading two Twin Cities nonprofits aim to be catalysts for change 

Dakota women leading two Twin Cities nonprofits aim to be catalysts for change 

The Twin Cities are at the epicenter of a dynamic shift in the world of land stewardship and restoration work. Leading the charge are two nonprofit environmental organizations —Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi and Owámniyomni Okhódayapi — now both led by Indigenous women.  
by Mathew Holding Eagle III

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