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MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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Climate Cast

Listen to Climate Cast, the MPR News podcast all about our changing climate and its impact in Minnesota and worldwide.

UN reports see a lonelier planet with fewer plants, animals

Crucial habitat has been cut apart, alien species have invaded places, chemicals have hurt plants and animals, wetlands and mangroves that clean up pollution are disappearing, and the world's waters are overfished, one scientist says.
by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

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Will flooding become a weekly event on the coasts?

Will flooding become a weekly event on the coasts?

Grim new predictions suggest that flooding could become a weekly event in parts of the United States. That's where we start this week's Climate Cast.
by Paul Huttner

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How vulnerable is our power grid?

The Trump Administration said last week that the U.S. energy grid was hacked by Russia.
by Mike Mulcahy and Jo Erickson

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A glimmer of hope for health of moose in northern U.S.

A glimmer of hope for health of moose in northern U.S.

Moose have struggled with parasites throughout the northern U.S., but Maine hunters might be allowed to harvest more of the state's iconic land mammal this year because of strong survival rates in the northern parts of the state.
by Associated Press

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Tech tips for spotting birds -- and why we love to watch them

Tech tips for spotting birds -- and why we love to watch them

As you spot the great egret, one of the stalkers of Minnesota lakes and ponds, send a word of thanks skyward on the 100th anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that helped keep the species alive.
by Mike Edgerly

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Decline in hunters threatens how U.S. pays for conservation

Decline in hunters threatens how U.S. pays for conservation

The steady drop is expected to accelerate in coming years, threatening the much-lauded model through which the U.S. has paid for conservation.
by Nathan Rott

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Sudan, world's last male northern white rhino, dies

Sudan, world's last male northern white rhino, dies

Sudan lived most of his life in a zoo in the Czech Republic, but was brought to a conservancy in Kenya in 2009 as part of a last-ditch effort to save his species. He died at the conservancy at age 45.
by Eyder Peralta

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DNR: No walleye keepers again this summer on Mille Lacs

DNR: No walleye keepers again this summer on Mille Lacs

Catch-and-release-only rules will be in effect for walleye on the iconic lake when the season opens May 12, though the DNR said the lake's spawning walleye population has improved from last year.
by MPR News Staff and Kirsti Marohn

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