Environment

This will be Minnesota's third wolf hunting season since the animals came off the endangered list.

Piping Mississippi River water into White Bear Lake would cost about $50 million upfront, but it's not certain the move would restore the lake's water levels, according to a new report from the Metropolitan Council.

Birders have been worried for more than a year about the mammoth glass and steel stadium and the potential for many birds to die hitting it. They've been pressing for project builders to use bird friendly designs.

Hunters in northeast Minnesota will feel the greatest impact from a bucks-only season.

Chef and author Dan Barber joins us to talk about his new book, "The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency isn't holding any of its carbon emission rule hearings in Minnesota. So supporters of the rules held their own.

A new episode of the PRX investigative reporting series called "Reveal." The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Center for Public Integrity worked on these reports: about increased accidents with the Coast Guard's expanded mission, Congressional influence on the EPA's arsenic in drinking water regulations, and veterans and the GI Bill at for-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix.

The Minnesota DNR has found invasive carp farther upstream in the Mississippi than the fish has previously been encountered.

Environmental Protection Agency officials insist new exemptions will ease and clarify regulation on agricultural land. But some farmers are concerned that the new rules will give federal regulators an expanded role on farmer's fields.

The DNR stocks about 25,000 muskie in as many as 30 lakes each year.

He said converting coal plants to users of natural gas should continue, along with investments in renewable energy.

In recent years, the DNR has removed up to 18,000 pounds of trash from one spot on the Mississippi River.

Federal authorities say Minnesota Power has agreed to install technology to reduce air pollution from three coal-fired plants.

Residents will be fined for wasteful outdoor watering, including "watering landscaping to the point that runoff flows onto sidewalks, washing a vehicle without a nozzle on the hose, or hosing down hard surfaces such as sidewalks and driveways," AP reports.

The wasps are natural predators of the tree-killing insect found in Winona in April. They eat the bug or use ash borer larvae to incubate their eggs.

Creeping Charlie, also called Ground Ivy, thrives in shade and high-moisture environments. The recent heavy rainfall has not helped in that scenario to lessen moisture from soil.

Billions of dollars are riding on how these rules are written, and lobbyists from the railroads, tank car manufacturers and the oil, ethanol and chemical industries have met 13 times since March with officials at the White House and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

With billions of dollars at stake, the railroad, oil, ethanol and chemical industries -- along with their critics-- have been trying to shape the rules to their advantage in a series of meetings with the White House and PHMSA.

Palm oil is used in foods like toaster pastries, instant ramen noodles and doughnuts. Palm oil production in Africa is picking up. And the new farms there are threatening great ape populations in West and Central Africa, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

Lawn watering is one of the biggest uses of groundwater in Minnesota, but a combination of technology, pricing and attitude change suggests that residents may be starting to change their behavior.