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Flood aid available to 6 more counties, tribe

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has added another six Minnesota counties and a tribal community to a spring flooding disaster declaration.

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Technologies for oil spill cleanup

Technologies for oil spill cleanup

Experts are throwing everything they've got at the oil spill in Gulf of Mexico to mitigate the spread of oil to the gulf coast including: dispersants, skimmers, and booms. Midmorning discusses the technology behind oil cleanup and whether it will make a dent in this environmental disaster.

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Finding homes for chimney swifts

Finding homes for chimney swifts

There's one Minnesota bird that has an unusual habitat problem -- the chimney swift. As more homeowners put caps on their chimneys to keep out the rain and other critters, the swifts are losing places to inhabit and find food.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Obama to do everything 'humanly possible' on spill

Obama to do everything 'humanly possible' on spill

President Barack Obama on Sunday warned of a "massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster" as a badly damaged oil well a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico spewed a widening and deadly slick toward delicate wetlands and wildlife.

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Weather hurts Gulf oil fight; new drilling on hold

Weather hurts Gulf oil fight; new drilling on hold

Oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico was oozing into Louisiana's ecologically rich wetlands Friday as storms threatened to frustrate desperate protection efforts. The White House put a hold on any new offshore oil projects until the rig disaster that caused the spill is explained.

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BP welcomes military help for larger Gulf oil leak

BP welcomes military help for larger Gulf oil leak

A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than believed and as the government grows concerned that the rig's operator is ill-equipped to contain it, officials are offering a military response to try to avert a massive environmental disaster along the ecologically fragile U.S. coastline.

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