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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Listening to the 'canaries in the coal mine' of climate change

Listening to the 'canaries in the coal mine' of climate change

The latest dispatch from the frontier of climate change: An arctic community just saw the largest die-off of reindeer in a decade. Journalist Amy Martin is talking to the people witnessing such impacts firsthand.
by Paul Huttner, Jayne Solinger and Megan Burks

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In Great Lakes, high waters cause headaches, uncertainty

In Great Lakes, high waters cause headaches, uncertainty

Water levels in the Great Lakes have reached record or near-record levels all summer. All that water is good for shipping on the lakes. But it's caused significant damage along the shoreline, and left many wondering whether high water levels are the new normal.
by Dan Kraker

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Emerald ash borer discovered in Worthington in SW Minnesota

Emerald ash borer discovered in Worthington in SW Minnesota

Minnesota agriculture officials are placing Nobles County under emergency quarantine after emerald ash borers were discovered in Worthington. It's the first time emerald ash borers have been identified in Nobles County, the Department of Agriculture said.
by The Associated Press

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Northern Metal gets extension for departure from Minneapolis location

Northern Metal gets extension for departure from Minneapolis location

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says a controversial metal shredding operation in north Minneapolis won't be closing this week, as expected. Neighbors have organized a rally to demand the company close its operations in their community.
by Kirsti Marohn and MPRNews Staff

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Plastics or people? At least 1 of them has to change to clean up our mess

Plastics or people? At least 1 of them has to change to clean up our mess

As consumers rebel against plastic waste, there's a growing question: Do we invent something people can toss without harming the environment or do we change people by giving them a chance to reuse?
by Christopher Joyce

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Woman’s kayaking hobby brings delight, discovery at 106

Woman’s kayaking hobby brings delight, discovery at 106

Pat Marble, just a few weeks shy of 107, still spends her summers at the family lake house in Northome, about four and a half hours north of the Twin Cities where she lives. At the lake, she sleeps on the porch, and says she doesn’t do much housework anymore. But she has picked up a new hobby: kayaking.
by Britta Greene

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Sailing to America: Teen to bring her climate activism to U.S.

Sailing to America: Teen to bring her climate activism to U.S.

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose social media-savvy brand of eco-activism has inspired tens of thousands of students in Europe to skip classes and protest for faster action against climate change, said that she plans to take her message to America the old-fashioned way: by boat.
by The Associated Press

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A new old way to combat toxic algae: Float them up, then skim them off

A new old way to combat toxic algae: Float them up, then skim them off

Massive blooms of blue-green algae are choking Florida's waterways. On Lake Okeechobee, the Army Corps of Engineers is testing methods based on wastewater treatment to remove the green slime.
by Greg Allen

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