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Trump cuts jeopardize work of key Minnesota research lab

By Stephanie Hemphill | April 17, 2025 |

EPA lab in Duluth, MN

EPA facility in Duluth has helped protect human health.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Freshwater lakes, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Nature, Policy, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior, Nature, resource management

The Unaffordable Question

By Laurie Allmann | April 2, 2025 |

Will it make a difference?

Filed Under: BWCA, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Policy, Water quality Tagged With: conservation

An update on evolving stories

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 17, 2025 |

Map: school trust lands located inside BWCAW

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

Farmers and environmental groups want Minnesota to put a lid on pesticide-treated seeds

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2024 |

Seed sales by company

Farmers and environmental groups want Minnesota to put a lid on pesticide-treated seeds

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: Agriculture, policy

How old is the water?

By Laurie Allmann | August 17, 2024 |

Calvin Alexander fields the questions

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, St. Croix River, Water quality Tagged With: science, water

Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay’s strategy to improve water quality?

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch | July 21, 2024 |

Runoff enters the Appomattox River, a major tributary of the James River, which flows into southern Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

People trying to clean up the Mississippi River to protect the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico could learn from those working on the Chesapeake Bay.

Filed Under: Agriculture, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Mississippi River, Policy, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, policy

Diving for Great Lakes Answers

By Laurie Allmann | April 6, 2024 |

Two mussel species set off a cascade of events in the Great Lakes

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: Great Lakes, Nature

“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

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

Protecting wild rice: will site-specific standards work?

By Stephanie Hemphill | September 15, 2023 |

Rice on lake. Photo courtesy Fond du Lac Resource Management

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has been trying for years to figure out how to get taconite mines to reduce the sulfate in their effluent because it damages wild rice. The current effort involves something called Site Specific Standards, and it looks likely that it will have no more success than previous attempts.

Filed Under: Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Research, Science, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: mining, Northern Minnesota, resource management

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