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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.

Ann Bancroft's latest adventure: Finding - and preserving - fresh water

Polar explorer and adventurer Ann Bancroft's latest project is "Access Water," a world-spanning journey that looks to document the world's fresh water shortage. She recently returned from a trip down India's Ganges River, and shared her experiences with Lynne Rossetto Kasper.

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Dayton’s 87 county tour underway

The governor describes his 87 counties in 86 days tour as a fact-finding mission to “listen to Minnesotans’ ideas and concerns" and celebrate the state's families, businesses, schools and communities.
by Tim Pugmire

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Melting ice in Greenland could expose serious pollutants from buried army base

Melting ice in Greenland could expose serious pollutants from buried army base

Camp Century was a research station and test site for deploying nuclear missiles before it was abandoned under the ice in the '60s. Scientists say pollutants left behind may spread as the ice melts.
by Christopher Joyce

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High heat and drenching rains kill Mississippi fish

High heat and drenching rains kill Mississippi fish

DNR biologists from Minnesota and Wisconsin say heat and rain reduced oxygen levels to fatal levels.
by Mark Steil

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Is your home irrigation system wasting water?

Is your home irrigation system wasting water?

Researchers are taking a close look at Twin Cities lawn watering habits this summer in an effort to reduce the difference between the amount of water cities use in the summer and winter.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Photos: A national park in the heart of the Cities

Photos: A national park in the heart of the Cities

The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area is a 72-mile stretch of the Mississippi from the riverbanks at Dayton through the drop at St. Anthony falls to the flats south of Hastings.
by William Lager and Evan Frost

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Mo' money, mo' bug problems: Wealthier homes are rich in insects too

Mo' money, mo' bug problems: Wealthier homes are rich in insects too

Looking for a healthy variety of bugs? You might want to try searching in your wealthiest friend's house. Neighborhood income is a good predictor of the number of kinds of bugs in homes.

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Climate scientists trained to be on hot seat

Climate scientists trained to be on hot seat

Testimony from scientists can be crucial to lawmakers, judges and juries. But explaining complex topics like climate can be a challenge. A program at Mitchell Hamline School of Law is pairing scientists with lawyers to improve communication.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Here's the colony-killing mistake backyard beekeepers make

Here's the colony-killing mistake backyard beekeepers make

While experts welcome the rising interest in beekeeping as a hobby, they warn novices may be inadvertently putting their hives, and hives for miles around, in danger.
by Dan Gunderson

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Climate Cast: Reasons for hope amid the climate crisis

Climate Cast: Reasons for hope amid the climate crisis

Today's Climate Cast focused on the technologies and practices that are making a difference in the fight against rising global temperatures.
by MPR News Staff

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