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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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Seeds of destruction?

Seeds of destruction?

Agriculture may have propelled us into modernity, but geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells argues in his new book that the move from hunting and gathering to farming has had downsides that we're just beginning to understand.

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What is the future of our oceans?

What is the future of our oceans?

Oceanographers and deep-sea explorers Sylvia Earle and Edith Widder travel around the world to study what's happening to our oceans. In a conversation at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival, they discuss the BP oil spill and other threats to our oceans -- as well as what ocean management should look like in the future.

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Is experimental well cap making disaster worse?

Oil from BP's blown out well is again seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, but this time, more slowly and scientists aren't convinced the cap that stopped the flow last week is making things worse.

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Obama launches policy to protect oceans

Obama launches policy to protect oceans

The Obama administration on Monday announced a new national policy for strengthening the way the U.S. manages its oceans and coasts, and the Great Lakes.

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Debate emerges over oil drilling in the Great Lakes

It may surprise you that one of the hot issues in the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race this year concerns drilling for oil in the Great Lakes. Putting the politics aside, this got us wondering if drilling for oil in the Great Lakes is a real possibility.
by Cathy Wurzer

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