Agate

Wonders of the Near North

Wonders of the near north.
  • Home
  • About Agate
  • Archive
  • Donate

Groups ask for further study of Northshore Mine Tailings Pond Work  

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 7, 2023 |

Northshore Mine in Silver Bay wants to expand its tailings pond; environmental groups are asking for a thorough Environmental Impact Statement.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Policy, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior, Northern Minnesota, resource management

Railroads & Fire

By Laurie Allmann | June 25, 2023 |

Filed Under: Audio, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Wildfire Tagged With: audio

Duluth’s beach struggles

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 22, 2021 |

“People in the community were grateful we were getting some kind of help, but it turned out to be an epic disaster.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Policy, Water quality Tagged With: duluth, Lake Superior, water

Walter Mondale, Champion of Rivers

By Agate | May 1, 2021 |

In his own words, with photographs by Craig Blacklock and a remembrance from Tia Nelson

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Policy, St. Croix River

A Father’s Bird Journal
        Eighty Years Later

By Laurie Allmann | April 3, 2021 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: birds

The Driftless: the land and humans

By Jeffrey Broberg | February 1, 2021 |

Driftless landscape

Here in the Driftless, it’s a never-ending cycle: surface water infiltrates into the soils and karst, becoming groundwater that quickly flows from nearby springs to become surface water again.

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Driftless Area, geology

Going Driftless

By Jeffrey Broberg | December 2, 2020 |

Geologist Jeff Broberg explores the origins of the Driftless Region

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, Series Tagged With: science

Thinking about white pine

By John Pastor | July 28, 2020 |

A biologist’s romance with a 200-year-old white pine.

Filed Under: Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature Tagged With: Old growth, White pine

Permitting Minnesota’s mines: what can we learn?

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 7, 2020 |

Northshore processing plant

A deep dive into the permitting process for the decades-old Northshore mine and the proposed PolyMet mine reveals a lot about the flaws in the system.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Pollution, Regulation

Book review: The Lost Forest

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 20, 2019 |

A children’s book explains a Minnesota mystery, with interesting information for adults and captivating artwork.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Art, Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

Welcome

A magazine about nature, science and conservation in Minnesota and the surrounding Great Lakes Region.

Getting Acquainted

Take our Reader Survey

Please Support Agate

Subscribe By Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to Agate and receive notifications of new posts. Subscribing is free.

Copyright © 2023 · News Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in