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Oil company looks to great lakes as shipping demand booms

Shipping the oil by barge brings potential economic benefits and jobs. But there are special environmental risks with heavy crude.

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Time is running out to save Florida's oranges

The culprit is citrus greening, a disease that has devastated Florida's oranges and grapefruits, and has now begun to spread in Texas and California.

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Northwest Minnesota wolf season closes

The overall quota for this year was cut nearly in half from the state's inaugural hunt last year after a winter survey showed the wolf population had dropped between 2008 and 2013.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Corps: Lawsuit against Red River diversion has no merit

Attorneys for the federal government are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by a group opposed to a plan to divert high water from the Red River around Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn.
by The Associated Press

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Counters head out for annual tally of Minn. birds

Counters head out for annual tally of Minn. birds

For birders, the Christmas bird count is equal parts adventure, fellowship and science -- the largest and oldest citizen science project in the world, according to the Audubon Society.
by Dan Olson

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DNR sticks to 90-day window on mine comments

DNR sticks to 90-day window on mine comments

Agency head says comment period for PolyMet mine already has been extended once.

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Haze at Teddy Roosevelt park under study

Researchers from the National Park Service and Colorado State University are studying haze levels in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
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Top 11 Minnesota health and environment stories in 2013

2013 brought us stunning health and environment stories on mental health treatment successes, advanced CPR technology and a troubling absence of Monarch butterflies.
by Nathaniel Minor

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Grasslands squeezed as another 1.6 million acres go into crops

Grasslands squeezed as another 1.6 million acres go into crops

In recent years the Conservation Reserve Program has shrunk by more than 25 percent. It's partly because Congress has cut funding for the program. But there's a more important reason: high grain prices.
by Dan Charles

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To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production

To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production

America's newest and cleanest coal-fired power plant comes with a catch: The heat-trapping carbon dioxide removed from its smokestack pollution will help force more oil out of the ground.
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