Climate

St. Paul brewery, U of M team up on Organic Brewers Alliance
The project will help breweries connect with organic farms for hops, barley and other ingredients such as honey. The goal is to support sustainable agriculture practices.
The world lost two-thirds of its wildlife in 50 years. We are to blame
Human activities are causing an "unprecedented" and alarming decline in wildlife populations around the world, a new report warns. It says the staggering loss ultimately threatens human life as well.
Gusty winds pose continued wildfire threats in California
Wildfires are raging unchecked throughout California, and authorities say gusty winds could drive flames with new ferocity. Diablo winds in the north and Santa Ana winds in the south are forecast into Wednesday in areas where blazes already have grown explosively.
The annual State Fair weather quiz with Mark Seeley is on
The Minnesota State Fair might be canceled, but there’s no way we would have let the annual weather quiz with Mark Seeley go on hiatus for a pandemic. For the 24th year in a row, Seeley took listeners’ questions about the weather and quizzed them back.
There's a push to name and rank heat waves
We’ve named hurricanes for decades and The Weather Channel names winter storms. Now one group wants to name heat waves to boost awareness about their growing impact.
In Duluth, shoring up Superior's encroachment on Park Point
For the past several years, cities and property owners along the Great Lakes have been battered by big storms and high water. That includes the Duluth neighborhood of Park Point, the 7-mile sand spit that juts out into Lake Superior from downtown. Now there’s an effort to rebuild it. 
COVID-19 and climate change: Implications for our food system
From the Commonwealth Club’s Climate One series, “COVID-19 and climate change: Implications for our food system.”
Minnesota's boreal forest is a climate change hot spot
Northern Minnesota is among the fastest warming areas on the planet, and that’s beginning to change the makeup of forests there.
University of Minnesota welcomes new climate scientist
Professor Heidi Roop will be developing a program with the University Extension to communicate critical climate information to the public. That includes how to prepare for the changes to come, and how to adapt to shifts we're already seeing today.