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Minnesota researchers begin Lake Superior study
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Duluth are launching a new phase of investigation into temperature changes on Lake Superior. In 2007, they published a report that found surface temperatures across Lake Superior had risen, on average, 4.5 degrees since 1979, and put them into the middle of the climate change debate.
Public show growing concerns over nuclear power at Prairie Island extension meeting
Growing concern over nuclear power has spurred more interest in the Prairie Island nuclear power plant, and at a meeting Thursday night the public had a chance to grill federal officials with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the plant's extension.
One of the two cubs recently born to the Minnesota black bear made famous by the Internet has died.
Loss of federal wolf control money blindsides state
Congress removed all funding for the Wolf Predation Management program in a temporary appropriations bill signed by President Obama on March 18. The program had a $727,000 budget to fund efforts in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.
In the first biennium after the new sales tax was established, the money was divided -- 42 percent for state parks, 42 percent for metro area parks and 15 percent for a grant fund, most of which went to greater Minnesota trails.