Water

The sport of wakesurfing has been growing in popularity on Minnesota lakes, sparking concerns about shoreline erosion and other impacts.

Canoeists eager to take a summer trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness can start making reservations Wednesday. But competition for those permits could be more intense this year after the Forest Service slashed the number of available slots.

Mark Toso alleges that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency penalized him for raising concerns that its program for handling leaking petroleum tanks was failing to protect groundwater.

Researchers recently made an interesting discovery in the St. Croix River: a cluster of endangered native mussels — some still alive — that they believe are more than a century old.

Emily Buermann shares a story about her great-grandmother’s vision of heaven as part of the We Are Water MN project.

The Minnesota Humanities Center “We Are Water Minnesota” traveling exhibit will show up cities like St. Paul, Winona, Fergus Falls and Lake City in 2022 as an interactive display that gives folks the chance to explore what water means in Minnesota — and how we can all do a better job protecting it.

It’s the first time that lakes outside of the Twin Cities metro area have been labeled as impaired because of the human-made chemicals known as PFAS.

This month the Minnesota DNR completed one of its largest-ever habitat restoration projects, a three-year, $18 million project restoring 230 acres of coastal wetland habitat in the St. Louis River estuary near Duluth.

Water advocates worry that the new standards will be less restrictive and could lead to more salty pollution in rivers and lakes.

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to regulate so-called "forever chemicals." Known as PFAS, these chemicals are found in a variety of household products and have been linked to health problems, including some cancers. The chemicals have contaminated water supplies throughout the U.S., including here in Minnesota.