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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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Study: Climate change to make lightning more common

Study: Climate change to make lightning more common

The likelihood of getting struck by lightning has long been a metaphor for something with an exceedingly remote probability. But that could be changing.

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With drought the new normal, food producers find they have to change

With drought the new normal, food producers find they have to change

Three years of severe drought in California is forcing a lot of farmers and ranchers to make tough choices. Yet, they have also discovered unexpected opportunities.
by Kirk Siegler

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Why the 'invasivores' haven't pounced on bear meat

Why the 'invasivores' haven't pounced on bear meat

Bear is a traditional American food, but the omnivore's meat isn't going to become a staple at the dinner table anytime soon.
by David Sommerstein

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Moose spotted in southern Minnesota

Department of Natural Resources specialists say it's unusual for a moose to travel that far from northern Minnesota.
by The Associated Press

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40 percent of world's cropland in or near cities

40 percent of world's cropland in or near cities

A study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters finds that somewhere around 1.1 billion acres is being cultivated for food in or within about 12 miles of cities.
by Eliza Barclay

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House, Senate to vote on Keystone pipeline

The House is virtually certain to approve the bill on Thursday. Sen. Mary Landrieu says she has the votes to pass it in the Senate next Tuesday. That would leave the fate of the bill up to President Barack Obama.
by The Associated Press

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Lawsuit: US allowing more tar sands oil through Minn. without review

Lawsuit: US allowing more tar sands oil through Minn. without review

The Sierra Club and several other groups say the State Department should not allow Enbridge Energy to operate a crude oil pipeline without first completing an environmental impact study.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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China and US, titans of carbon pollution, move to cut gases

China and US, titans of carbon pollution, move to cut gases

China and the U.S. account for more than a third of greenhouse gases -- making it vital that any broad climate plans include the pair.

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Obama on climate agreement with China: Ambitious, but achievable

"Ambitious" but "achievable" is how President Barack Obama described a breakthrough climate agreement with China, announced Wednesday at the APEC conference in Beijing.
by John Abraham

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How animals hacked the rainbow and got stumped on blue

How animals hacked the rainbow and got stumped on blue

A lesson in nature. There's more than one way to make color. And, more than one way to use it to your advantage.
by Rae Ellen Bichell

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