Environmental News

MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

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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Climate Cast

Listen to Climate Cast, the MPR News podcast all about our changing climate and its impact in Minnesota and worldwide.

Warming planet could make big floods more likely
This week on Climate Cast, meteorologist Paul Huttner joins us to examine how a warming planet could make "megafloods" more likely. We'll also take a look at FEMA's new flood maps that significantly expand flood zones.
Input sought on changes to DNR endangered species list
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wants the public to weigh in on whether it should consider moose, Canada lynx, and about 180 other plant and animal species to be endangered, threatened or of special concern.
In 2008 Zac Unger decided to write a book about polar bears, the quintessential requiem of how human-caused climate change was killing off these magnificent beasts. In the end, he came away with something totally different.
The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa says military waste barrels retrieved from Lake Superior contain active explosives.