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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Embracing the dark and the quiet in a noisy, bright world

Embracing the dark and the quiet in a noisy, bright world

Paul Bogard and Gordon Hempton urge us to find the dark and the quiet spaces that are increasingly rare in our modern world.

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Jane Goodall offers support to Minn. bear researcher Lynn Rogers

Jane Goodall offers support to Minn. bear researcher Lynn Rogers

Famed scientist Jane Goodall, best known for her 54-year study of African chimpanzees, has lent her support to Lynn Rogers, the embattled black bear researcher in northern Minnesota.
by Dan Kraker

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DNR attributes pine tree deaths to long-term drought

DNR attributes pine tree deaths to long-term drought

Pines and other conifers in northern Minnesota are dying in slightly larger numbers than usual. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says the trees have been stricken by drought. Eight of the last 11 summer and fall seasons have been very dry in northern Minnesota.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Wine waste finds sweet afterlife in baked goods

When winemakers crush the juice from grapes, what's left is a goopy pile of seeds, stems and skins destined for the dump. Now, scientists and entrepreneurs are finding new and often surprising uses for this former waste product.

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State regulators writing new frac sand rules

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and other state agencies are beginning to write new rules for frac sand mining as part of a plan ordered by the Legislature.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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'White-nose' fungus found on bats in 2 Minnesota state parks

'White-nose' fungus found on bats in 2 Minnesota state parks

A fungus that can prove devastating to bat communities has been found in a cave at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park and at the mine at Soudan Underground Mine State Park.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Xcel, Minneapolis agree on green energy goals

Xcel, Minneapolis agree on green energy goals

The move may make a proposed vote on replacing Xcel with a city-run utility unnecessary. The commitments were outlined in an exchange of letters between Mayor R.T. Rybak and the utility.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Minn. firm's new water filter: bacteria

A rural Minnesota water company is experimenting with a new way of treating drinking water -- using bacteria to remove the harmful pollutants.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Cities begin to plan for climate change

Cities begin to plan for climate change

2012 was record-setting year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2012 State of the Climate report.

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