Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay’s strategy to improve water quality?
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.
Can we transform recycling?
Recycling can be confusing. Several bills in the Minnesota legislature this year are designed to make it easier for us and more comprehensive. They would flip the current pattern and make producers take responsibility for the entire life cycle of their products.
Small co-ops lag in clean energy production
Small rural electric co-ops struggle to join the clean energy transition.
Finding new ways to assert treaty rights and protect the environment
White Earth attorney Frank Bibeau is coming up with new ways to protect the environment by asserting tribal rights.
Environmental Review: how are we doing?
How well is Minnesota’s environmental review program working?
Trying (again) to tackle mercury in the St. Louis River
Taking steps to put the St. Louis River on a mercury diet.
Wind Resistance
Wind turbines are being built in ocean waters off the east and west coasts. But why don’t we see any in the Great Lakes?
Remembering Grant Merritt, genial and tenacious defender of Minnesota’s environment
Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.
Living with Aquatic Invaders
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.