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A new report notes nature-based climate solutions need to be in the mix.

Reforestation and cover cropping should be on the front lines of Minnesota's fight to reduce greenhouse gases, and could cut up to one-fifth of the state's heat-trapping emissions. The climate impacts of how Minnesotans manage and work the land is front and center in "Nature and Climate Solutions for Minnesota," a new report out Monday by The Nature Conservancy. "It's the type of solution that ...

The wolves have recovered in Minnesota, but their populations are struggling elsewhere.

Joyce Eileen Scanlan, longtime leader of National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota, dies at 85 January 11, 2021 — 12:39pm Text size Copy shortlink: Joyce Eileen Scanlan could not get a teaching job in Minnesota when she moved to the state in the 1970s. She had been teaching English and Latin for years in North Dakota and Montana, but schools in Minnesota would not hire her because she was blind, said her husband, Tom Scanlan. "They'd ask, 'How would you find your way around the school and how would you find the bathroom?' " h...

New uses for dead ash, fir and tamarack trees could help restore Minnesota's forests UMD researchers alter properties of undesired woods threatened by pests.  January 1, 2021 — 7:51pm Text size Copy shortlink: One invasive beetle is ready to devour just about every ash tree left in Minnesota's woods. A caterpillar has killed more than 200,000 acres worth of balsam fir trees in just the last year. Another beetle, a native in the midst of a population boom, has already destroyed about half of the state's tamaracks. Add it all up an...