Gene Merriam: Money alone will not improve water
A year ago, the Freshwater Society issued a report on Minnesota’s ground and surface waters that took a hard look at the issue of pollution from diffuse sources. That report, … Read more
A year ago, the Freshwater Society issued a report on Minnesota’s ground and surface waters that took a hard look at the issue of pollution from diffuse sources. That report, … Read more
For 15 years, Minnesota has played a central role in research on endocrine disrupting compounds in the environment. Here are some of the research projects that have studied the compounds, … Read more
Hillary Carpenter, a toxicologist, is the Minnesota Department of Health’s expert on endocrine disrupting compounds. He has doctorate in pharmacology, has written about EDCs for the Minnesota Medical Association and … Read more
Dressed in waders, a life vest and surgical gloves, John Greene waded waist-deep into the Grindstone River, about two miles east of the Hinckley, Minn., sewage treatment plant, and carefully … Read more
A major Minnesota research project – paid for by the sales tax increase voters approved last year, and conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and St. Cloud State University – … Read more
Ag Dept. to spend $320 million on Mississippi The river that begins as a trickle in Itasca State Park and ends 2,350 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico will … Read more
Do you want to know what you – personally – can do to keep Minnesota’s lakes clean and safe? Do you wonder what is the biggest pollution threat facing those … Read more
If you live on a lake, stream or wetland, plant a buffer strip of native plants along the water. If you have a lawn, keep it small and don’t use … Read more
Plants and animals that have been introduced by human actions to areas where they do not naturally occur are designated as exotic, non-native or alien, by the Minnesota Department of … Read more
The short answer to that question is: We are. All types of human activities – turning forests into farms and turning farms into suburban developments, burning coal to power our … Read more