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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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Aspen Ideas Festival: Solving the Carbon Problem Together

Aspen Ideas Festival: Solving the Carbon Problem Together

Roger Sant says our carbon pollution problem can be solved with proper regulations and market incentives, and we need to make sure it's not FREE to pollute. Hear some history of our successes and failures in addressing energy and pollution problems. Roger Sant says energy conservation was considered almost anti-American in the 70's, but we learned back then, and since, that our country's biggest energy and pollution problems can only be solved with tenacity.

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U of M flushes toilets with rainwater

New student housing at the University of Minnesota includes a system for collecting stormwater from the roof and using it to flush the toilets for 600 students.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Do fish have ears? Frequencies used to stop the spread of Asian carp

Do fish have ears? Frequencies used to stop the spread of Asian carp

Researchers at the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Center at the University of Minnesota recently unveiled what they hope will be a potent weapon against the spread of Asian carp.
by Tom Crann

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Wild pangolin: We're eating the rare mammal into exctinction

Wild pangolin: We're eating the rare mammal into exctinction

Once a supplemental protein source for people in rural villages, it has become a luxury food for newly-rich urbanites, prized precisely because it must be caught in the wild.
by Jon Fasman

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Researchers to conduct first survey of Minnesota's native bees

Researchers to conduct first survey of Minnesota's native bees

For years, scientists have studied honeybees to assess the connection between their declining population and the use of pesticides, declining habitat and disease. But until recently, they paid little attention to Minnesota's native bees.
by Dan Gunderson

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Minnesota starts to think about re-using wastewater

Minnesota starts to think about re-using wastewater

Treated sewage water is getting used again in a few places, watering golf courses, washing trucks and sweeping streets. The economics in a water-rich state make for slow change, but those who have tried it think it could be a way of the future.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Toledo bans tap water after algae toxins found

The water ban is affecting more than 400,000 people and the governor has declared a state of emergency. Officials are telling some residents to avoid showering with the water, reports Toledo News Now, and to make sure their children and pets stay away from it, as well.

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Mosquito numbers down, West Nile virus still a threat

Mosquito numbers down, West Nile virus still a threat

The heat of August, paired with the heavy rains and flooding of early summer, have created conditions perfect for mosquitoes carrying the virus.
by MPR News Staff

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Iraq's fight against militants shifts to control of water

Iraq's fight against militants shifts to control of water

Islamist extremists have pushed Iraq into crisis. They have taken towns and cities, roads and bridges, and Iraq's army can't seem to push them back. Now the militants and the army are battling for control of the two great rivers that flow through Iraq: the Tigris and the Euphrates. The extremists are believed to have skilled water engineers among their number, and if they control Iraq's waterways, they could create serious disasters.
by Alice Fordham

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