agriculture
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As U.S. skips climate summit, Minnesota moves forward
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Earlier this week, world leaders and delegations congregated in Belém, Brazil at the COP30 conference to discuss the world’s most critical health and security issue: the warming…
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MPCA proposes new steps to cut nutrient pollution
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Home to the headwaters of three great watersheds, Minnesota is a place where everything that enters our lakes and rivers makes a big impact downstream. Our waters flow…
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Opportunities, some risks for Minnesota as sustainable aviation hub
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EPA grants Minnesota $200 million for ag climate efforts
Last week, the US EPA announced that Minnesota will receive close to $200 million in federal dollars for a major climate action initiative, the Minnesota Climate-Smart Food Systems project.
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Relax Farmers: Climate Change is Good for You (Not)
In 1989, I worked for a farm magazine that claimed global climate change, if real, would actually be good for agriculture since rising carbon dioxide levels would act as some sort of…
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Restoring Watershed Health: Drop-by-Drop
Another rainy Friday: a good time to contemplate what trying to produce food on an industrial scale has done to our natural plumbing—and how it pays back the favor.