Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.
Diary of a mad tree planter
Northern Minnesota landowners prepare for the arrival of the Emerald ash borer.
Book Review: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
A vivid history and sober analysis of the many threats the Great Lakes face.
A Poetry Event for the Bees
Agate Magazine and Holy Cow! Press are teaming up to create a hive of bee activities in Duluth.
Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with Bob Dunn
Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.
Dueling lawsuits over Minntac permit
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is at the center of lawsuits over a long-delayed water quality permit for the Minntac taconite mine.
If Bees Are Few
A conversation with the poet and the entomologist whose teamwork produced an anthology of poems about bees.
Reporter’s Notebook: Oral history project continues with Grant Merritt
Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.
Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project begins with Chuck Dayton
In the early 1970s, Minnesota legislators put key environmental protections into law. An oral history project aims to recall how the bills were passed with wide margins, and how effective the laws have been.
Minnesota tweaks wild rice rule
Minnesota adjusts a formula designed to protect wild rice waters from sulfate pollution.