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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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Data centers: The Internet's big pollutants

When you do business in "the cloud," the computers keeping your data moving are producing pollution. We look at the environmental impact of the Internet.

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Black Hills rumbling under buffalo roundup

Black Hills rumbling under buffalo roundup

Thousands of spectators were set to begin clogging the park's entrance at about 7 a.m. Monday in anticipation of the morning event.

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Businesses and boaters pinched by low river levels in Minn.

Businesses and boaters pinched by low river levels in Minn.

The drought has pushed river levels in some parts of Minnesota to near record lows, forcing the state Department of Natural Resources to suspend water pumping permits for dozens of businesses and other users.
by Mark Steil

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Desalination no panacea for Calif. water woes

Desalination no panacea for Calif. water woes

Squeezing salt from the ocean to make clean drinking water is a worldwide phenomenon that has been embraced in thirsty California. There are currently 17 desalination proposals in the state. But many projects have been stymied by skyrocketing construction costs, huge energy requirements for running plants, regulatory delays and legal challenges over environmental impacts on marine life.

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How will melting Arctic ice change global economy?

How will melting Arctic ice change global economy?

The melting Arctic ice is a major concern for climate change and global warming experts, but for some the changing landscape could bring in new economic opportunities. How will the new normal impact our daily life and economy?

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Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records.

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ron Bowen profits from prairie preservation

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ron Bowen profits from prairie preservation

Every year around about this time, a Minnesota businessman brings in an unusual harvest: seeds from native prairie plants. He aims to help preserve those species -- at a profit -- as their habitat slowly shrinks.
by Dan Olson

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Researcher Lynn Rogers feeds the bears, battles critics

Researcher Lynn Rogers feeds the bears, battles critics

Last month, the Department of Natural Resources shot a bear that wore a tracking collar. The animal had refused to leave an area where children were present. That bear's death lies at the heart of a longstanding tension between mainstream wildlife scientists and a controversial researcher.
by Dan Kraker

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