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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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