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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Heating Up: an NPR News Special on the Climate Summit in Paris

Heating Up: an NPR News Special on the Climate Summit in Paris

NPR's Ari Shapiro hosts a one-hour special examining the current science of climate change, how much time scientists say there is to address it, the political and economic challenges nations will face during the meeting in Paris, and what solutions might come from the United Nations summit on climate change.

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On patrol with the drought police

On patrol with the drought police

Burbank is using new technology and recycling to cut water use.
by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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147 world leaders gather in Paris for U.N. climate conference

147 world leaders gather in Paris for U.N. climate conference

During his opening speech, President Obama said that "no nation -- large or small, wealthy or poor -- is immune" to the ills of climate change.

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Kyoto treaty fizzled, but climate talkers insist Paris is different

Kyoto treaty fizzled, but climate talkers insist Paris is different

The 1997 Kyoto treaty set targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions that many nations didn't meet. This time, stakes are higher and all countries will be asked to set and meet their own limits.
by Christopher Joyce

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Dan Olson's 'Minnesota Sounds and Voices' special

Dan Olson's 'Minnesota Sounds and Voices' special

Highlights from Dan Olson's "Minnesota Sounds and Voices" series. Included in this special are: forest ecologist AmberBeth Van Ningen, dancer Nancy Raddatz, Kathy Dummer of Blue Mounds State Park, educator Jamal Abdur Salaam, Dakota educator Sisoka Duta, jazz man Butch Thompson, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes and piper Dick Hensold with members of Messiah's Men.

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Earth selfie: A southern hemisphere summer

Earth selfie: A southern hemisphere summer

This week, clear skies over Australia await Antarctic storms reaching northward.
by William Lager

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Busted: EPA discovers Dow weedkiller claim, wants it off the market

Busted: EPA discovers Dow weedkiller claim, wants it off the market

Dow AgroSciences, which sells seeds and pesticides to farmers, made contradictory claims to different parts of the government about its latest herbicide. The EPA now wants to cancel Dow's legal right to sell the product.
by Dan Charles

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Hunters take 14 percent more deer despite another 'conservative' season

Hunters take 14 percent more deer despite another 'conservative' season

As another "conservative" deer hunting season comes to an end in Minnesota, wildlife management officials say a better than expected harvest means the state's herd is recovering.
by John Enger

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