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Minn. geology combined with wet soil is recipe for mudslides

Minn. geology combined with wet soil is recipe for mudslides

Satish Gupta, professor at the University of Minnesota's Department of Soil, Water and Climate has his eye on mudslides -- like the one that sent a Mississippi River bank plummeting last week near the University of Minnesota's Fairview Medical Center campus.
by MPR News Staff

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Money men tally cost of climate change

Money men tally cost of climate change

The report, released Tuesday, is designed to convince businesses to factor in the cost of climate change in their long-term decisions and to push for reductions in emissions blamed for heating the planet.
by The Associated Press

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Toxic weed shows up in eastern Minnesota

Officials say the weed is poisonous, and both fresh and dried plant parts are toxic. The plant's leafy portions could be mistaken for lettuce or other leafy greens.
by The Associated Press

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As farming booms, some Minnesota prairie songbirds fall silent

As farming booms, some Minnesota prairie songbirds fall silent

The rebounding grain market has led farmers to withdraw land from the federal Conservation Reserve Program and plow it back into crops. Now, the birds that returned two decades ago are leaving again, raising concerns about the prairie's long term health.
by Dan Gunderson

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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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