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Spill fears rise even as Line 3 backers vow new pipeline will be safe

Spill fears rise even as Line 3 backers vow new pipeline will be safe

As state regulators decide whether to approve Enbridge Energy's Line 3 pipeline proposal, they must weigh the benefits of a new, modern pipeline across northern Minnesota against the risk of disaster. A trip on the proposed route with supporters and critics shows what's at stake.
by Dan Kraker

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Can woodchips, wetlands clean polluted Vermillion River?

Can woodchips, wetlands clean polluted Vermillion River?

The iconic Dakota County river has struggled for decades with nitrate runoff from local farms. Watershed experts are experimenting with an approach that may aid the Vermillion and other Minnesota waters, if it works.
by Cody Nelson

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Arctic wolves in Minnesota adjusting to new pack

Arctic wolves in Minnesota adjusting to new pack

Pups Axel and Grayson will turn 2 years old this May at the International Wolf Center in Ely. They are troublemakers, of sorts.

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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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