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Of Icicles and Ice Sheets

By Rudy Molinek | March 5, 2022 |

I’ve come to a place where the boundaries—between ice and vapor, between glacial moraines and muddy paths in the woods, between icicles and ice sheets, between the past, the present, and the future—are all boundaries that can sublimate away, leaving behind only awe, and hope, and spring.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science Tagged With: Nature

Reflecting on Water

By Photographs by Andrew James Okey | November 2, 2020 |

A chorus of regional voices on fresh water accompany images by Andrew James Okey.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Uncategorized, Water quality

Moving around during the climate crisis

By Stephanie Hemphill and Kathleen Weflen | December 4, 2019 |

Reflections on choices we make in the age of climate catastrophe.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: climate change

Duluth talks about the future

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 31, 2019 |

The emerging concept of climate migration challenges one northern city to examine its values.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: climate change, duluth

Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?

By Nancy Langston | January 14, 2019 |

Woodland caribou on Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior. Credit: Christian Schroeder.

Human policy decisions may pose a more imminent threat to caribou than climate change.

Filed Under: Climate Change, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, wildlife Tagged With: climate change, Wildlife

A Brighter Way Forward

By Olya Wright | January 1, 2019 |

Olya Wright speaking at youth rally and march for climate change action

Time to listen to young voices

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized Tagged With: climate change

Boreal Heartbeat: Canadians experience a changing climate

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 3, 2018 |

Dan and Brenda Baughman. Photo by Kelsey Jones-Casey.

What does climate change mean for people who live close to the land in Northwestern Ontario?

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: climate change, Ontario

Adaptation as Acceptance: Toward a New Normal in the Northwoods

By Meredith Cornett, Director of Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota | September 26, 2017 |

In northern Minnesota, most tree planting takes place in the early spring. Here, quaking aspen are surrounded by white spruce and balsam fir. Photo ©2017/Christian Dalbeck Photography

The inside view from a conservation biologist

Filed Under: Climate Change, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature, Northern Minnesota, resource management

Duluth activists want more from community solar project

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 31, 2016 |

Community solar is growing fast in Minnesota, but not so fast in the rest of the region. Clean energy advocates say Duluth-based Minnesota Power’s proposal for a pilot community solar garden is too timid.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Issues Tagged With: fossil fuels

Taking the Brook Trout’s Temperature

By Greg Seitz | September 25, 2013 |

Notre Dame biologists study how native fish could be restored to the Namekagon River watershed.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Research

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