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Creating a balance between technology and nature

Creating a balance between technology and nature

Author and journalist Richard Louv speaks at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum about his new book, "The Nature Principle." Louv started a movement to help children reconnect with nature and coined the term "nature deficit-disorder" in his best-selling book, "Last Child in the Woods."

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Boy Scouts to improve trail system in NE Minn.

The U.S. Forest Service and the Boy Scouts are teaming up to build new trails and improve existing trails in the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota.

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High court blocks states' climate change lawsuit

High court blocks states' climate change lawsuit

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled out a federal lawsuit Monday by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The court said that the authority to seek reductions in emissions rests with the Environmental Protection Agency, not the courts.

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Senate votes to repeal ethanol tax credits

Senate votes to repeal ethanol tax credits

Ethanol producers lost a battle in the U.S. Senate Thursday when senators voted to end a 45-cent per gallon tax credit on the corn-based fuel.
by Curtis Gilbert and Madeleine Baran

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Minnesota research project focuses on saving tiny songbird

Minnesota research project focuses on saving tiny songbird

Nearly half the golden-winged warblers in the world are in northern Minnesota right now for the summer breeding season, and the tiny birds have become the subjects of a two-year research project that could help determine whether they should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.
by Dan Gunderson

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Photos: Saving the golden-winged warbler

Photos: Saving the golden-winged warbler

Nearly half the golden-winged warblers in the world are in northern Minnesota right now for the summer breeding season, and the tiny birds have become the subjects of a two-year research project that could help determine whether they should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.
by Ann Arbor Miller

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Grand Rapids audience shows support for wolf delisting

Grand Rapids audience shows support for wolf delisting

Nearly 200 people attended the meeting, which was organized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to learn more about the latest plan to delist wolves.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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St. Paul announces plan for riverfront makeover

St. Paul announces plan for riverfront makeover

The city of St. Paul has unveiled a sweeping plan for redeveloping the city's Mississippi riverfront. The renovation plan calls for a dramatic makeover that would make the area more natural, more urban and more connected. Don Ganje, the city's projects manager, talked with MPR's Tom Crann about the plan.
by Tom Crann

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