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The Changing World of Maps

By John Toren | March 18, 2020 |

A meander to Montgomery, MN

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: maps

Can we protect nature by giving it legal rights?

By Emily Levang | March 5, 2020 |

Great blue heron

Communities are using “Rights of Nature” laws to defend waterways, species and other natural features from human threats.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: conservation

Audible underwater worlds

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 15, 2020 |

Researchers drill a hole to sink a hydrophone into an ice-covered lake.

A researcher records sounds under the surface of Minnesota lakes and hopes to learn whether humans are disturbing the lives of the denizens of the deep.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: fish, Great Lakes, lakes, research

Monarchs

By Laurie Allmann | January 25, 2020 |

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Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry Tagged With: butterflies, monarchs

Akinomaage: Teaching from the Earth

By Vern Northrup | January 10, 2020 |

Anishinaabe elder Vern Northrup captures images of the natural world; he calls his book Teaching from the Earth.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography Tagged With: photography

Where the Earth Breathes: A Vow of Stability

By Kevin Koch | December 22, 2019 |

Excerpt of an essay by Kevin Koch from the anthology, The Driftless Reader

Filed Under: Driftless Region, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: driftless, geology, glaciers

Moving around during the climate crisis

By Stephanie Hemphill and Kathleen Weflen | December 4, 2019 |

Reflections on choices we make in the age of climate catastrophe.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: climate change

Hawks on High

By Phil Fitzpatrick | November 9, 2019 |

A trio of poems from Phil Fitzpatrick’s “Hawks on High”

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry, Uncategorized, wildlife

Confronting Great Lakes invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 15, 2019 |

Mid-ocean ballast water exchange is working well to keep non-native aquatic organisms from invading the Great Lakes, but scientists are racing to find more secure solutions.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: ais, Great Lakes, invasive species

Growing Seasons

By Agate | September 14, 2019 |

A video meditation on the growing season by photographer Gary Noren and guitarist Dean Magraw

Filed Under: Art, Audio, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography Tagged With: music, photography, seasons, slideshow

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