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MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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Lawmakers try to lift wolf protection despite deal

Key lawmakers in the political skirmish over gray wolves in the West say they will continue their efforts to lift federal protections for the predators, despite a proposed settlement between environmentalists and the government.

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Minn. lawmakers cut environmental programs

Minn. lawmakers cut environmental programs

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says it would have to close between five and 10 state parks, and offer reduced services at others, under budget bills passed by the Republian-led House and Senate Tuesday.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Female shortage endangers wolves on Isle Royale

Female shortage endangers wolves on Isle Royale

After surviving a parvovirus epidemic, bitter winters, hunger and warfare between packs, the gray wolves that roam Michigan's Isle Royale National Park may go extinct because of what amounts to an unlucky roll of the biological dice: They're running out of females as the overall population slides.
by John Flesher, Associated Press

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What's behind our conflicted feelings on nukes?

What's behind our conflicted feelings on nukes?

Even before the Japanese nuclear crisis, Americans were bombarded with contradictory images and messages that frighten even when they try to reassure. It started with the awesome and deadly mushroom cloud rising from the atomic bomb, which led to fallout shelters and school duck-and-cover drills.

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American RadioWorks: No Place for a Woman

American RadioWorks: No Place for a Woman

Midday presents an encore broadcast of the American RadioWorks documentary, "No Place for a Woman." It recounts the women who endured abuse and harrassment while working in the male-dominated iron ore mines in northern Minnesota. A group of these women filed the nation's first sexual harrassment class action lawsuit that helped change the American workplace forever.

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USDA funds research on crops and climate change

USDA funds research on crops and climate change

The federal government is investing $60 million in three major studies on the effects of climate change on crops and forests to help ensure farmers and foresters can continue producing food and timber while trying to limit the impact of a changing environment.
by Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

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Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states

Facing mounting pressure from Congress, wildlife advocates and the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday reached an agreement to lift gray wolf protections in Montana and Idaho and allow hunting of the predators to resume.

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