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Waseca weather station joins 100-year data club
The town is one of a small, but growing, number of Minnesota communities with a century of weather records.
Copper mine study forecasts 30 years of profits, 850 jobs
The Twin Metals project, a joint effort of Duluth Metals and Chilean mining giant Antofagasta, would be one of the largest underground mines in the United States, near the southern edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Urban farms build resilience within Singapore's fragile food system
Singapore may be one of the most affluent countries in the world, but it depends heavily on others for basic foodstuffs. A new crop of farmers is trying to change that.
The areas are protected because they contain rare native plants and undisturbed shorelines.
Last year the Gourley Brothers company applied for and received a permit that would allow its farm to pump up to eight million gallons of groundwater a year. Neighbors who oppose the large feedlot say the Department of Natural Resources didn't do its homework before issuing the permit
Fighting invasive fish with forks and knives
Add kitchen knives to the list of weapons that humans are using to fight invasive species.
Twin Cities environmentalists join fight over Cargill's Arkansas hog operations
Some of the anger over the facility comes from the fact that it's located on a tributary just six miles from the Buffalo River, an area they gets special protection from the National Park Service.