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BWCA wildfire fighting costs $11 million to date
The effort to contain the Pagami Creek wildfire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has cost $11 million to date, according to officials battling the 93,000-acre blaze.
Scientists say atlas is wrong on Greenland's glaciers
The latest edition of Britain's influential Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World claimed that Greenland lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover from 1999 to 2011. Scientists, however, say that this is an egregious error. Dr. Mark Serreze joins us to explain.
Emerald ash borer nears St. Paul's Summit Ave.
Minnesota Department of Agriculture entomologist Mark Abrahamson said the ash trees near the intersection of Dale and Kent in St. Paul may have been infected by emerald ash borers spreading from a nearby neighborhood.