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Getting water to crops when they're thirstiest pays off

Getting water to crops when they're thirstiest pays off

A new project measures precise shifts in weather and soil moisture to help central Minnesota irrigators try to limit groundwater contamination.
by Jennifer Vogel

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Enbridge delays pipeline for at least a year

Because of a longer than expected permitting process in Minnesota, the company now estimates the pipeline won't be in service until 2017.
by The Associated Press

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California becomes first state to ban plastic bags

Grocers support the ban because it sets a statewide standard and allows them to charge consumers a 10-cent fee for using paper bags.
by The Associated Press

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Photos: Autumn's glorious colors in Minnesota and around the world

Photos: Autumn's glorious colors in Minnesota and around the world

While Minnesota's fall show has certainly picked up momentum in recent days, a colorful display is also unfolding elsewhere.

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European activists say they don't want any US 'chlorine chicken'

The chlorine vs. no chlorine debate has risen to the surface in the context of a trans-Atlantic trade agreement, which would create the world's biggest trade-free zone.
by Susanna Capelouto

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Blue Mounds State Park puts on a fall show

Blue Mounds State Park puts on a fall show

Photojournalist Jackson Forderer covered the bison roundup last week. Then he turned his camera around to capture the rest of the park as it neared peak fall color.
by Jackson Forderer

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Jonathan Foley's Chautauqua Lecture on agriculture's role in climate change

Jonathan Foley's Chautauqua Lecture on agriculture's role in climate change

Jonathan Foley gives a 2014 Chautauqua Lecture about the challenges of feeding the world's people without destroying the planet.

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Tiny Spanish island nears its goal: 100 percent renewable energy

Tiny Spanish island nears its goal: 100 percent renewable energy

The most remote of Spain's Canary Islands is billing itself as the world's first energy self-sufficient island that has never been hooked up to a power grid.
by Lauren Frayer

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The worldwide impact of wildlife trafficking

The worldwide impact of wildlife trafficking

Crawford Allan of the World Wildlife Fund, joins us to talk about the risks this trade poses to animals, the environment and the human population.

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Lisa Westberg Peters on 'Fractured Land,' ND oil boom

Lisa Westberg Peters on 'Fractured Land,' ND oil boom

Her upcoming book, "Fractured Land," looks into the stories behind her family's inherited rights and royalties from fracking in North Dakota.

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