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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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Smaller Minnesota cities take the lead in sustainability

Smaller Minnesota cities take the lead in sustainability

Global climate change might seem to call for global action, but there are efforts going on in places you wouldn't necessarily look, with countless examples in cities across Minnesota.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Climate One: 'Doubt, Deception and Defiance'

Climate One: 'Doubt, Deception and Defiance'

Did Exxon-Mobil lie to the public and investors about the threat of climate change? Several experts explore whether this is similar to what the tobacco companies said about the link between smoking and cancer. You'll also hear some climate change activists discuss their strategies. From the Climate One series at the Commonwealth Club of California.

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To tame a 'wave' of invasive bugs, Park Service introduces predator beetles

To tame a 'wave' of invasive bugs, Park Service introduces predator beetles

The forest at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is sick, infected by invasive aphid-like bugs. To help save the trees, the park's vegetation crew uses pesticides as well as a tiny beetle from Asia.
by Nathan Rott

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Wisconsin wolf population reaches record high

Wisconsin wolf population reaches record high

The Wisconsin DNR pegs the state's wolf population at nearly 900, 16 percent more than last year. The rise coincides with the wolf in the Great Lakes region being placed back under endangered species protection.
by Dan Kraker

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Here's really where Zika mosquitoes are likely in the U.S.

Here's really where Zika mosquitoes are likely in the U.S.

A few months ago, health officials published a map that made it look like a big part of the U.S. was at high risk for Zika. Now they've released a new map that paints a very different picture.
by Michaeleen Doucleff

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For the first time in decades, herring are spawning in a Hudson River tributary

For the first time in decades, herring are spawning in a Hudson River tributary

The herring are spawning in New York's Wynants Kill tributary after a dam was removed. It's seen as an environmental success and is aimed at restoring the river's health.

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Light pollution hides Milky Way from 80 percent of North Americans, atlas shows

Light pollution hides Milky Way from 80 percent of North Americans, atlas shows

More than 99 percent of the people living in the U.S. and Europe look up and see light-polluted skies, according to a new atlas of artificial night sky brightness.

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Regulators accelerate coal plant retirements in northern Minnesota

Sierra Club organizer Jessica Tritsch said the environmental groups following the case were pleased that the PUC made changes to the utility's original plan in favor of clean energy.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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