Environment

The Legislature asked the Met Council to study possible solutions both to White Bear Lake's low water and to concerns about unsustainable groundwater pumping in the region.

It wasn't a great year for the shoreline wildlife of Lake of the Woods. Flood waters from the saturated Rainy River watershed poured into the lake starting in June.

Scientists don't yet know exactly how much blooms have expanded, but early findings suggest the algae is getting thicker, likely due to a combination of climate change and decades-old pollution.

Communities and individuals have been able to ask the DNR to spray moth-infested areas for 14 years. But the agency now wants to limit spraying to only state lands.

The Department of Health says "a small amount" may have entered an oxbow of Timber Creek approximately five miles northwest of Arnegard.

When people hear about Maria DeLaundreau's summer cottonwood planting project, they think she's crazy. Plant more of those messy, trees? What about the seeds?

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.