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Wilderness Voices: Travis Novitsky

By Agate | May 21, 2019 |

“Some of my most unforgettable moments are sitting on the shores of a boreal forest lake on a calm night with no wind, watching the northern lights dance overhead while the haunting calls of loons echo across the water.”

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography

Home is Where the Heart Is

By Sadaf Nasir | April 18, 2019 |

Poetry from a young writer and photographer.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Poetry Tagged With: poetry, water

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

‘Mixing:’ Painter mingles art and science, land and water

By Greg Seitz | March 18, 2019 |

New work by a 2018 artist-in-residence on the St. Croix River celebrates the beauty of a confluence where the waters of two rivers affected by very different human activities meet.

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: painting, research station, scwrs

Book review: They Have a Word for It

By Laurie Allmann | February 25, 2019 |

Rheingold’s classic, a book for our times.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: books

Battle over Manoomin

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 5, 2019 |

Rice on lake. Photo courtesy Fond du Lac Resource Management

Tribal governments and the state of Minnesota offer competing plans for protecting wild rice.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Policy, Resource Management, Water quality

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

Minnesota History magazine gives a nod to state’s early environmental laws

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 14, 2019 |

New article by Agate co-founder is based on long-running project to record interviews with influential advocates.

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Policy, Reporter's Notebook Tagged With: history, law

A Brighter Way Forward

By Olya Wright | January 1, 2019 |

Olya Wright speaking at youth rally and march for climate change action

Time to listen to young voices

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

Art, Science, Empathy, Action

By Agate | December 15, 2018 |

Upper Wright Down. Artist Chris Kannen. McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER

Michigan Researcher Lissy Goralnik Explores the Connections

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research Tagged With: art, interviews, science

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