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No Raids, No Shifts, No Gimmicks
Conservation Minnesota, which has been publishing detailed analyses of state spending on conservation and the environment since 2002, has issued its latest report. It is an accounting of how the … Read more
Ikes set Summit on water Feb. 23
This year’s Summit, sponsored by the Minnesota Division of the Izaak Walton League, will be Saturday, Feb. 23, at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The theme is Watershed-Water Management Solutions: … Read more
A moderating view on global temperature rise
So…are some reputable scientists starting to say that climate change is real, it’s human caused and its consequences will be severe, but that the global temperature increase from accumulating greenhouse … Read more
Minnesota moose herd down by a third
Minnesota’s slumping moose population has fallen further, and the Department of Natural Resources responded by suspending next fall’s moose hunting season. The moose population in Northeastern Minnesota dropped 35 percent … Read more
PFOS levels decline in the Mississippi
Levels of a chemical once manufactured by the 3M company — perfluorooctane sulfate, or PFOS — are declining in the Mississippi River fish below the Twin Cities, but the levels … Read more
Thoreau, Leopold and climate change
Old journals that recorded events in phenology — the first spring blooms on flowers, the migrations of waterfowl, when lakes freeze up in the winter and when the ice goes … Read more
Read and comment on climate change forecast
A draft National Climate Assessment that predicts the impact of global warming in the U.S. by 2050 was released last week by a huge team of scientists. A Pioneer Press … Read more
How hot was 2012? Hotter than any year in the record book
Last year – 2012 – was the hottest on record in the United States – a full degree Fahrenheit above the previous record, set in 1998. Read a New York … Read more
Ag and water pollution; road salt; invasives
Don’t miss Sandra Postel Put it on your calendar. Sandra Postel, a best-selling author and National Geographic Freshwater Fellow will deliver a free, public lecture in St. Paul on Tuesday, … Read more