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Huttner talk set Oct. 1 on Minnesota's changing climate
It’s not our imagination. The nature of our seasons is changing. Spring blooms arrive earlier on average. Summer is more humid with a documented increase in extreme localized flash flood events – and more … Read more
Ag-water quality book published
The Soil and Water Conservation Society has published a new book titled How to Build Better Agricultural Conservation Programs to Protect Water Quality: The National Institute of Food and Agriculture … Read more
Nitrate taints St. Peter groundwater
A Minnesota Public Radio report this week looked at the complicated – and costly – process the City of St. Peter uses to remove nitrate from city water. The nitrate … Read more
Climate imperils fish
Climate change and warming lakes and rivers will produce major changes in freshwater fish populations and their ranges, a new report warns. Download the 34-page report, “Swimming Upstream: Freshwater Fish … Read more
Meetings set on nitrogen fertilizer plan
The first of five “listening sessions,” hosted by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to receive citizen comment on a new nitrogen fertilizer plan, will be from 5 to 7 p.m. … Read more
Iowa acts on ag pollution
Iowans – some Iowans, anyway – are taking very seriously the water pollution caused by many modern farming practices. The Iowa Board of Regents this month approved creation of an … Read more
Fracking linked to arsenic
Read a Pro Publica interview, published in MINNPOST, about researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington who tested water in wells near natural gas fracking sites in Texas. They … Read more
A shallow lakes workshop
What: The Nature of Lakes—A Shallow Perspective When: Tuesday, Aug. 20, 7 to 8 p.m. Where: St. Louis Park Public Library, 3240 Library Lane St. Louis Park For: All interested … Read more
Decades of irrigation depleting High Plains aquifer
Irrigation, which transformed agriculture in Kansas into a much more profitable industry decades ago, now is starting to exhaust the groundwater that fed the change. Read, or listen to, a … Read more
Nitrogen flush headed for Gulf
Last summer’s drought in the big parts of the Midwest stunted crops and left lots of nitrogen fertilizer – much of which normally would have been taken up by plants … Read more