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Wind Resistance

By Patrick Shea, Points North | December 31, 2022 |

Wind turbines are being built in ocean waters off the east and west coasts. But why don’t we see any in the Great Lakes?

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Policy Tagged With: conservation, policy

Peatlands: A closer look at an otherworldly world

By Laurie Allmann | October 28, 2022 |

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Peatlands, Uncategorized Tagged With: Northern Minnesota, peatlands

Ecosystems changing rapidly in many remote northern lakes

By Greg Seitz | September 3, 2022 |

Recent studies show how protected waters of Midwest National Parks are affected by global forces.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Michigan, minnesota, national parks, water, wisconsin

Minnesota wildfire outlook

By Chance Lasher | June 22, 2022 |

Many factors play into the risk of wildfires; an outlook for this season, and why Duluth is uniquely vulnerable.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science, Wildfire Tagged With: Nature, Northern Minnesota, Wildfire

Quirky plants on Lake Superior’s rugged shore

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 19, 2022 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Nature, Research, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Lake Superior, Nature

Of Icicles and Ice Sheets

By Rudy Molinek | March 5, 2022 |

I’ve come to a place where the boundaries—between ice and vapor, between glacial moraines and muddy paths in the woods, between icicles and ice sheets, between the past, the present, and the future—are all boundaries that can sublimate away, leaving behind only awe, and hope, and spring.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science Tagged With: Nature

Reflecting on Water

By Photographs by Andrew James Okey | November 2, 2020 |

A chorus of regional voices on fresh water accompany images by Andrew James Okey.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Uncategorized, Water quality

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

Duluth talks about the future

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 31, 2019 |

The emerging concept of climate migration challenges one northern city to examine its values.

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

Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?

By Nancy Langston | January 14, 2019 |

Woodland caribou on Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior. Credit: Christian Schroeder.

Human policy decisions may pose a more imminent threat to caribou than climate change.

Filed Under: Climate Change, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, wildlife Tagged With: climate change, Wildlife

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