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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Environmentalist Bill McKibben at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Environmentalist Bill McKibben at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Environmentalist Bill McKibben, author of "The End of Nature" and "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet," spoke at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival about climate change.

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Study: Walleye reproduction not affected by Miss. River chemicals

Study: Walleye reproduction not affected by Miss. River chemicals

A new study finds walleye in the Mississippi River are consistently exposed to emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals. But the chemicals are apparently not affecting the reproductive systems of the state's iconic sport fish.
by Dan Gunderson

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Muck move spurs rebirth of polluted Duluth harbor site

Mud settled over the years in the backwaters of the St. Louis River, choking off what had been an open-water channel and prime fish habitat behind Tallas Island near Duluth.

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Lake Superior reaches record temp

Lake Superior reaches record temp

This year, the normally uncomfortably cool surface waters of Lake Superior aren't so cold, but a researcher stops short of directly blaming global warming.
by Bob Kelleher

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Tropical depression halts drilling at Gulf well

Drilling the final feet of a relief well intended to permanently plug the busted BP oil well deep below the Gulf of Mexico will have to wait two to three days as a strengthening tropical depression bears down on the site.

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