Science

People in Ashland, Wisconsin are frustrated about how long it's taking to clean up pollution on their Lake Superior waterfront. The city wants to expand a marina and try to draw more tourists to town. But the shoreline is full of dangerous wastes from an old gas plant.

Probes from the United States and Europe are on their way to Mars. Scientists hope both missions will answer questions about what happened to the water that once flowed over the planet.

A special live broadcast from Mainstreet Radio, hosted by Rachel Reabe, in Fargo North Dakota. The economy is changing in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Straddling the rich farm land of the Red River Valley, this community is well known for its agricultural products. But its earning a reputation for its newest cash crop, high-tech companies which have produced over 5,000 jobs in the last decade. We discuss the high-tech organizations setting up shop in the area.

La Crosse archaeologists say they've discovered evidence of the origin of the Oneota tribe. It was an ancient indigenous people and the ancestor of many Midwestern Native American tribes including the Ho-Chunk and the Dakota. The find has spurred an energetic debate in the archaeology community that has led to more questions than answers.

Midmorning's guest after ten asks, 'If we can get to the moon, why can't we figure out how to solve the obesity crisis?'

Mobile Chernobyls. That's how opponents of the proposed nuclear waste repository in Nevada describe the transport of tons of radioactive waste from more than 100 temporary storage sites at nuclear power plants across the nation. Over the objections of Nevada's Governor and its citizens, Congress recently voted to locate a permanent facility at Yucca Mountain, a 90 minute drive northwest of Las Vegas. We hear a special broadcast from National Public Radio's Justice Talking series. In Minnesota, the Legislature could take up a bill Thursday, the third day of its special session, that would clear the way for Xcel Energy to store more nuclear waste at its Prairie Island power plant.

Unwanted messages show up in our email, but is it really as big a problem on the internet as we think? What can be done to stop or at least slow it down.

They've been mocked as "franken-food." But far from stumbling, genetically-modified crops dominate the corn and soybean market.

Farmers' love affair with genetically-modified crops is growing. The latest debate is over a new genetically-modified wheat variety, which is being developed by Monsanto. Monsanto is one of the largest distributors of high-tech crops. But farmers are urging Monsanto to keep Roundup Ready wheat in the laboratory.

More people relied on the internet for news and information related to the Iraq war than ever before according to a recent national study.