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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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We want to help the climate, so why don't we?

We want to help the climate, so why don't we?

Climate change is the focus of a worldwide conference which aims to reach an agreement between governments on greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, psychologists wonder why people who believe their actions are responsible for global warming have so much trouble acting on that concern.

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Cap and tradeoffs: Introduction

Many of the world's leaders believe cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the key to addressing global warming, and they're gathering in Copenhagen this month to work out an agreement on reductions.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Photo diary: A Danish woman living in Minnesota

Photo diary: A Danish woman living in Minnesota

Malene Houmaae has lived in the U.S. for 16 years but she's never lost her Danish perspective on conservation. She sent us her photos from her energy-saving house in Chanhassen.

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Global warming resources

Many of the world's leaders believe cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the key to addressing global warming, and they're gathering in Copenhagen this month to work out an agreement on reductions.

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UN climate conference opens

UN climate conference opens

The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.

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Award-winning journalist discusses the reality and the future of China

Award-winning journalist discusses the reality and the future of China

Mary Kay Magistad, the Asia Correspondent for PRI's The World, discusses the future of China and its relationship with the United States. Magistad was a featured guest at Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist series at the University of St. Thomas.

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Single Asian carp found in Chicago-area fish kill

Single Asian carp found in Chicago-area fish kill

Wildlife officials discovered a single Asian carp Thursday in a canal leading to Lake Michigan, the nearest the destructive species has come to the Great Lakes, Illinois environmental officials said.

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The list of threatened species grows

The list of threatened species grows

The World Wildlife Fund has released it's latest list of the most threatened species on the planet. New additions to the list include the Pacific walrus, bluefin tuna, and the monarch butterfly.

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