Far from the Boundary Waters, the Mille Lacs tribe resists another copper-nickel mine
The Tamarack Mining Project, unaffected by Gov. Tim Walz’s recent executive order on nonferrous mineral mining, is moving through the regulatory process.
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The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps
In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32%. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.
How to keep items out of landfills in greater Minnesota
PHOTO ESSAY: Take a look inside a Fix-It Clinic. The events aim to preserve repair skills, reduce waste, and build community in greater Minnesota.
The future of geothermal energy may depend on fossil fuel workers
The next generation of geothermal energy is drawing on decades of talent and technical expertise developed in the oil and gas industries.
There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet
Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester an enormous amount of carbon. But a new atlas shows that they need urgent protection.
Duluth Community Garden Program wilted. Volunteers stepped in to save it.
“I couldn’t watch it die,” said Haley Diem, who co-chairs the board and helped reshape it into a volunteer-run organization with other supporters of the gardens.
Atlanta is embracing a cheap, effective way to beat urban heat: ‘cool roofs’
White or reflective roofs significantly reduce temperatures. Atlanta is the latest city to mandate their adoption.
Science says plastic bag bans really do work
Outlawing or taxing plastic bags reduces beach litter, according to a recent study.
Decades of effort revitalize St. Louis River
Work to mediate more than 100 years of industrial pollution and dumping in Duluth, Minn., has reached new milestones.