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Heat & Repeat: Globe breaks May temperature record

Heat & Repeat: Globe breaks May temperature record

Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say.
by The Associated Press

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MPR Top Coast Festival: Richard Louv on children and nature

MPR Top Coast Festival: Richard Louv on children and nature

Richard Louv, speaking May 31, 2014 at the MPR Top Coast Festival about the importance of being outside in nature. Richard Louv is best known for his concern about "Nature-deficit disorder." In his books, "Last Child in the Woods" and "The Nature Principle," Richard Louv explains why he associates nature with health, happiness and joy. And it drives him crazy that some children won't have the gift of nature that his parents gave him. (This Top Coast Festival conversation with Richard Louv was presented by our Healthy States initiative.)

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Fresh emerald ash borer fight underway in Mpls.

Fresh emerald ash borer fight underway in Mpls.

Over the next eight years, the city will cut down and replace the trees with diverse tree species in a preemptive fight against the emerald ash borer, an invasive species.
by Lisa Oyolu

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Drones banned in national parks, temporarily

Drones banned in national parks, temporarily

For now, drones are no longer allowed to fly on National Park lands.
by Eyder Peralta

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LA mountain lion a poster child for rat poison problem

LA mountain lion a poster child for rat poison problem

Los Angeles' Griffith Park is home to an abundance of wildlife, but a mountain lion known as P-22 is arguably its most well-known four-legged resident. But reports this spring that P-22 became ill from exposure to rodenticides has heightened concerns about the use of the poisons in the state.
by Gloria Hillard

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Mark Seeley: Wet weather speaks to broader climate trend

Mark Seeley: Wet weather speaks to broader climate trend

Climatologist Mark Seeley says all this wet weather is part of a broader precipitation trend in Minnesota -- a trend representative of a changing climate. Both the "character and quantity" of Minnesota's precipitation is changing, he told MPR's Cathy Wurzer.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Photographs offer striking glimpse of our oldest living things

Photographs offer striking glimpse of our oldest living things

Rachel Sussman has spent the better part of a decade tracking down and photographing organisms that have been living for more than 2,000 years.

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Lessons learned from 2012 Duluth floods

Lessons learned from 2012 Duluth floods

Floodwater from recent rains continues to cause problems across the state this morning. Cathy Wurzer checked in with Mayor Don Ness in Duluth, where a major flood just two years ago drew national attention.
by Cathy Wurzer

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After the rains, a grueling cleanup on the farm

After the rains, a grueling cleanup on the farm

Rain and hail have made a mess of thousands of acres of Minnesota farmland, so much so that U.S. Agriculture Department officials are out assessing the toll. They don't have a state-wide damage estimate yet, but farmers don't need an official assessment to know that the storms have created a lot of extra work.
by Mark Steil

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