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Vikings move ahead on bird-collision study, advocates unimpressed

Vikings move ahead on bird-collision study, advocates unimpressed

The Vikings and the state have agreed to fund a $300,000 study to monitor bird collisions at the new stadium, but birders say the agreement doesn't go far enough.
by Tim Nelson

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Designing neighborhoods to fend off heat waves

Designing neighborhoods to fend off heat waves

A group of researchers and urban planners met this week to discuss how to design a neighborhood in Minneapolis to make it more resilient to extreme heat.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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New project helps scientists better understand Red River's pollution in Canada

New project helps scientists better understand Red River's pollution in Canada

The data, collected by a U.S.-Canadian collaboration into a single computer model for the first time, shows that Minnesota and North Dakota contribute about 60 percent of the phosphorus load in Lake Winnipeg.
by Dan Gunderson

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Climate Cast: How well is 'clean coal' living up to its promise?

Climate Cast: How well is 'clean coal' living up to its promise?

President Obama had hoped that a Mississippi power plant would be a shining clean coal win for the administration. Instead, managers covered up problems and cost-overruns, according to a recent New York Times story.
by MPR News Staff

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Hundreds in Duluth comment on minerals mining near Boundary Waters

Hundreds in Duluth comment on minerals mining near Boundary Waters

Around 500 people filled a "listening session" Wednesday held by the U.S. Forest Service on two controversial mining leases near the Boundary Waters.
by Dan Kraker

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MN adds more than 300 lakes, streams to polluted water list

MN adds more than 300 lakes, streams to polluted water list

About two-thirds of Minnesota watersheds have been tested and 40 percent of Minnesota rivers and lakes have been found to be impaired by farm runoff, bacteria, mercury or other pollutants.
by Dan Gunderson

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Minnesota mystery: Where are the prairie butterflies?

Minnesota mystery: Where are the prairie butterflies?

Tiny butterflies that once numbered in the millions have largely vanished from western Minnesota's prairie landscape. Experts fear their decline is an environmental warning.
by Dan Gunderson

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PolyMet files first major mine permit applications

PolyMet files first major mine permit applications

The project promises an economic revival to northeast Minnesota, but opponents say it comes with unprecedented environmental risks.
by Dan Kraker

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Climate change may already be shifting clouds toward the poles

Climate change may already be shifting clouds toward the poles

Scientists who have been tracking cloud patterns over the past two decades say the shifts they're seeing seem to correlate closely with what's predicted by computer models of Earth's changing climate.

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