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Sometime this fall, after the leaves are off the trees, several small planes will fly back and forth over nine western Minnesota counties, bombarding the ground with hundreds of millions … Read more

An interview with Robert Glennon, a University of Arizona law professor who recently published a new book, Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It, was featured in … Read more

Hedrick Smith, who produced “Poisoned Waters,” an acclaimed television documentary on pollution in Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound, will speak April 27 in St. Paul about the serious contamination that … Read more

Read about a Community Clean-up for Water Quality in White Bear Lake that collected 97 bags of leaves and other organic debris – material that could have carried phosphorus into … Read more

The sixth year of the Freshwater Society’s Water is Life art contest has encouraged student artists from across the Minnesota to share their talent and knowledge. About 250 students from … Read more

Last month, the Freshwater Society joined with the Izaak Walton League to host a conference on agriculture, water quality and the changes that more than a century of drainage has … Read more

Leaves bagged by volunteers await pick-up in White Bear Lake. Jill Schroeder raked leaves from parks and storm drains, her husband and his parents diligently stuffed and tied bags, her … Read more

It’s interesting to coin a new word. A number of years ago, Dr. Joe Rossillon, the former president of the Freshwater Foundation, and I were discussing a column I had … Read more

Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and was profiled in an Oscar-winning documentary for his work calling attention to global warming, which he called the “An Inconvenient Truth” confronting the … Read more

For people who love nature, the Minnesota Weatherguide Environment Calendar has been a major source of information on phenology – the science of observing and tracking plants and animals in … Read more