Climate

Climate law could shrink price of Sherco solar project
Xcel Energy says tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act could lower the cost of building the 460-megawatt project next to its retiring coal plant in Becker by 20 percent.
What's in big Biden bill? Health, climate goals become law
President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and on Tuesday he's signing into law legislation with a slimmer version of that idea.
From its start one year ago, Greenwood Fire changed landscape of northeast Minnesota
The Greenwood Fire was first spotted one year ago. By the time it was extinguished months later it had burned thousands of acres and destroyed more than a dozen homes and cabins — part of a fire season that prompted a closure of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Hotter nights could increase global mortality rates, a study warns
Nighttime temperatures could double in some eastern Asian cities, according to a study researchers say is the first to estimate the impact of hotter nights on climate change-related mortality risks.