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Push to map Great Lakes bottom gains momentum amid promises effort will help fishing and shipping
What lies beneath the Great Lakes' waves is largely unknown, but there's a new push to learn more about thousands of shipwrecks, underwater infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on the bottom of the world's largest freshwater system.
5 things to know about Mexico's first female president
Claudia Sheinbaum is a 62-year-old environmental scientist who left academia on a political trajectory that took her from a local mayor, to running Mexico City, to winning the presidency with nearly 60 percent of the vote.
In Mille Lacs, divers go deep to uncover lake’s trash problem
On Mille Lacs, Minnesota’s second-largest inland lake and a premier fishing destination, concern has been growing over garbage left behind by ice anglers and other lake users. Divers from a nonprofit group based in Lake Tahoe, Nev., recently spent two weeks taking a closer look at Mille Lacs’ submerged litter to better understand where it’s coming from, and how to prevent it.
From Walz’s hometown to an American Legion, Minnesotans react to governor in VP debate
Supporters of the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets gathered Tuesday evening for debate watch parties around Minnesota for the likely only debate between Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
In VP debate, Walz acknowledges he wasn’t in China during Tiananmen uprising
APM Reports, the investigations and documentaries unit of MPR News, first reported that Walz’s claim during a 2014 congressional hearing on the 25th anniversary of the massacre didn’t square up with media accounts in 1989.
Walz’s account of son’s brush with gun violence offers poignant moment in VP debate
“Look, I’ve got a 17-year-old and he witnessed a shooting at a community center playing volleyball,” Walz said during the debate, referencing his son Gus. “Those things don’t leave you.”