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Bat Gadgetry: High-Tech Solutions to a Deadly Problem 

By Patrick Shea | October 15, 2022 |

Bat cave

A deadly fungus is threatening bats across the continent and it’s pushed several species towards extinction. But some scientists are hopeful they’ve found a solution: a “bug buffet.”

Filed Under: Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, Nature

Remembering Grant Merritt, genial and tenacious defender of Minnesota’s environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 28, 2022 |

Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: Lake Superior, memoir, minnesota, policy

Living with Aquatic Invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 14, 2022 |

Scientists have learned a lot about aquatic invasive species, and experts now say the appearance of an exotic species in a body of water doesn’t necessarily mean the end of life as we know it.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Fish, Flowers, Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Nature, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

What We Must Bring to Politics: Don Arnosti on citizen advocacy

By Agate | February 17, 2022 |

Our window of opportunity for the environment

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Uncategorized

Experts clash over logging in wildlife areas

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 20, 2021 |

“Timber sales are not planned by wildlife managers; they’re assigned from the top down.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, wildlife Tagged With: minnesota, Nature, policy, resource management

EPA okays new Minnesota water quality rules

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 17, 2021 |

The federal government has approved controversial water quality changes for Minnesota.

Filed Under: Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: environmental review, policy

Working with fire, traditionally

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 3, 2021 |

A new short film, Oshkigin: Spirit of Fire, shows the traditional controlled burning practices of the Anishinaabe people. These small burns help prevent wildfires from getting out of hand.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Photography, Policy, Resource Management, Science, wildlife Tagged With: Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management

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

Microplastics proliferate in Lake Superior

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 16, 2021 |

Dr. Lorena Rios Mendoza leads students in a yearly beach cleanup.

Researchers are learning about the microplastics in Lake Superior.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: microplastics, water

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