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Trying (again) to tackle mercury in the St. Louis River

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 28, 2023 |

Taking steps to put the St. Louis River on a mercury diet.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Nature, Peatlands, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior, mining, minnesota, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management

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

sweetwater sea

By Dominique Braud and Agate | November 26, 2022 |

Lake Superior transforms the world around it in images by Dominique Braud set to music by Peter Ostroushko.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Video

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

Celebrating Dark Skies

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 29, 2022 |

Northern Lights shine above Eagle Lake north of Duluth in March 2015. Bob King

Efforts grow to protect the dark skies that nature needs and humans love.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior Tagged With: dark skies

Where does that mercury come from?

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 28, 2021 |

“We’ll use these stable isotope fingerprints of mercury to look at what source is being methylated and getting into the fish,” says USGS’s Sarah Janssen.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior

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

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