Greg Stanley

Madelia has had to pump raw sewage into a river for several days to avoid widespread backups.

It's not on the northern forest roads, or on a long winding curve where it's hard to see. It's not in the grasslands or on the narrow county highways that roll past farms and thick corn fields.

The University of Minnesota's Bell Museum has already assembled 650,000 observations for its Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas.

Smith Foundry will close this month after more than 100 years in business, potentially leaving behind a polluted site.

Minnesota lost 140,000 acres of forested wetlands between 2006 to 2020. What replaced them lacks their ecological benefits.

The turtles, caught in agency nets, had been lined up on a sandbar in the hope they would recover.

Marshes were drained and replaced by shallow, lifeless ponds. Old floodplain forests were cut down w Your free access has ended.

Marshes were drained and replaced by shallow, lifeless ponds. Old floodplain forests were cut down with no plan for them to grow back.

Peatlands are vital to efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions, and the Minnesota DNR is in charge of both saving them and leasing them to peat mining companies.