Environment

Hundreds of residents in flood-ravaged Waseca and St. Clair are dealing with property damage while state transportation officials wait for the water to recede to begin inspecting inundated roads and bridges.

At least 50 First Nations and tribes signed a treaty Thursday opposing tar sands expansion plans that they view as "a collective threat to our Nations."

Communities are cleaning up debris, pumping water and trying to manage wastewater systems after storms this week dumped curtains of rain on southeastern Minnesota.

North Dakota's oil-rich Three Affiliated Tribes wants a federal appeals court to quickly decide whether a Texas company needed tribal permission to put an oil pipeline and a natural gas pipeline beneath a Missouri River reservoir.

Make no mistake, parts of Minnesota got a lot of rain overnight Wednesday. But it wasn't enough to classify it as a "mega storm event."

The bees once ranged over 28 states stretching from Minnesota to Maine and into parts of Canada, but are now limited to small and scattered colonies in about a dozen states.

Drug resistance is no longer a matter of health. It could have massive implications for the world's economy and food supply.

Palmer amaranth can shoot up as high as 7 feet, and just one plant can produce 500,000 to 1 million tiny seeds.

Shawn Otto, co-founder and chair of Science Debate, spoke with MPR News host Kerri Miller about what our presidential candidates are saying about climate change.

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa plans to hold an off-reservation moose hunt beginning Saturday in northeast Minnesota, despite concern from the Minnesota DNR over the iconic animal's steep population decline.

A new report looked at threats to the 72-mile stretch of the river that travels through the Twin Cities area.

Several groups are seeding 12,000 pounds of wild rice into the St. Louis River this fall, part of an ambitious effort to restore 250 acres of wild rice to this culturally important waterway.

In an effort to turn away from chemical pesticides, which have the potential to damage the environment, some farmers are looking in a new direction in the age-old struggle against pests.

Hundreds of tribe members and others from around the region spent the weekend on the Red Lake Nation reservation in northern Minnesota learning how to grow and gather indigenous food

A proud Ho-Chunk Nation member, Bronson Koenig, is bringing his expertise to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest in North Dakota.

The Counter Stories hosts, along with guest Rhiana Yazzie, discuss the protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.

An estimated 5 percent of Minneapolis commuters and 2.1 percent of St. Paul commuters said they bike to work in 2015.

Participants at a summit in northwestern Wisconsin talked about solutions to wolf problems, including attacks against domestic animals, in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.

Participants from Winona, Grand Rapids and Morris said they knew next to nothing about climate change until they talked about their experiences.