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Weird Duck Time

By Todd Arnold | March 7, 2024 |

Another perk of Midwest winters

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

Small co-ops lag in clean energy production

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 17, 2024 |

Solar panels being installed

Small rural electric co-ops struggle to join the clean energy transition.

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

Ruby Slippers

By Laurie Allmann | January 31, 2024 |

Back in the news

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

“We got jellyfish!”

By Ellie Katz | January 12, 2024 |

Freshwater jellyfish with water glider

Student scientists in Michigan add to the sparse scientific record about Craspedacusta sowerbii, a freshwater jellyfish found in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes.

Filed Under: Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: Nature

Winter Flight

By Laurie Allmann | December 30, 2023 |

Gary Noren revels in the freedom of Nordic ice-skating

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

Finding new ways to assert treaty rights and protect the environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 10, 2023 |

Wild rice on a lake

White Earth attorney Frank Bibeau is coming up with new ways to protect the environment by asserting tribal rights.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Commentary, Conservation practices, Freshwater lakes, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

Climate disruption: what are we in for?

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 21, 2023 |

Pines on the St. Croix River

We are all noticing changes in the climate. What can we expect in Minnesota?

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation practices, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Nature, Research Tagged With: conservation, Lake Superior, minnesota, Nature, Northern Minnesota

Small Wonder

By Agate & Emma O'Brien | October 28, 2023 |

Agate’s Short-short Video Series continues with a video by Emma O’Brien

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Video Tagged With: video

Environmental Review: how are we doing?

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 13, 2023 |

Blackhawk Lake

How well is Minnesota’s environmental review program working?

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: policy, resource management

Down in the Valleys

By Laurie Allmann | September 29, 2023 |

Artist Mark Granlund pedals and paints his way down the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Mississippi River, Nature, St. Croix River Tagged With: art, painting

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