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    March 1, 2017
    A study by University of Minnesota researchers has found out why diverse forests grow better and faster than single-species plantations. It has to do with shapes and how the trees fit in with each other as they seek sunlight. Forum News Service file photo
    Scientists report why forests with more tree types grow better, faster
    DULUTH, Minn.—It's been known for years that forests with lots of different tree species grow better and faster than forests with just...
    NewsMarch 1, 2017 - 9:29pm
    Great River Energy's Coal Creek Station on August 19, 2015, in Underwood, N.D. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald)
    Trump poised to lift federal coal ban, other green rules
    U.S. President Donald Trump will target a handful of Obama-era green regulations, including a federal coal mining ban and an initiative forcing...
    NewsMarch 1, 2017 - 1:13pm
    February 28, 2017
    President Donald Trump addresses the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. U.S., February 24, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
    Trump to order review of WOTUS regulations, official says
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will sign a measure on Tuesday directing regulators to review an Obama administration regulation that expanded...
    NewsFebruary 28, 2017 - 7:58am
    February 26, 2017
    A mourning dove sits in a tree. Photo by Laura Erickson / Special to Forum News Service
    Cook: Another kind of winter: dove, robin, cardinal
    A few nights ago, two of us went for an evening walk about 700 miles south of our home in Duluth, Minn. We were there for a funeral and had...
    sportsFebruary 26, 2017 - 9:15am
    A white-tailed buck pauses in the woods on a fall morning. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, with the public's help, is developing a deer management plan. DNR officials held a meeting in Duluth on Wednesday night to get input on deer management issues. Forum News Service file photo
    Duluth group sounds off about deer management preferences
    DULUTH, Minn.—Deer hunters and other interested folks gathered over coffee and chocolate-chip cookies in Duluth on Wednesday night, Feb....
    sportsFebruary 26, 2017 - 7:00am
    February 25, 2017
    Jasper Spillman, 30, of Lawrence, Kansas, watches law enforcement officers advance into the main opposition camp against the Dakota Access oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., February 23, 2017. REUTERS/Terray Sylvester
    As DAPL camp cleared, protesters plot resistance to other pipelines
    CANNON BALL, N.D. - Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline who were pushed out of their protest camp this week have vowed to keep up efforts...
    NewsFebruary 25, 2017 - 1:02pm
    February 18, 2017
    Children play with water in Madureira Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 12, 2017. Pilar Olivares / Reuters
    Latin America's cities sweat over health risks from urban heat
    TEPIC, Mexico—Rio de Janeiro is sweltering in blazing temperatures as it gears up for its spectacular carnival later this month, but in...
    NewsFebruary 18, 2017 - 9:06pm
    February 14, 2017
    A rusty patched bumble bee which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing for federal protection as an endangered species is pictured in Madison, Wis. in August 2015. Rich Hatfield / Handout via Reuters
    Trump administration sued over protection for vanishing bumble bee
    An environmental group sued U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday for delaying a rule that would designate the rusty patched...
    NewsFebruary 14, 2017 - 5:53pm
    February 12, 2017
    LaDonna Allard, founder of the first resistance camp against the Dakota Access Pipeline, gestures while talking to a participant in the Intertibal Summit to Protect Our Water on Sunday. Steve Kuchera / Forum News Service
    90 tribal representatives strategize in Duluth over pipeline battles
    DULUTH, Minn.—LaDonna Brave Bull Allard founded Sacred Stone, the first resistance camp formed to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline near...
    NewsFebruary 12, 2017 - 8:42pm
    February 10, 2017
    The sun rises above "sea smoke" and low clouds as seen from behind the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center on Friday morning, Feb. 12, 2016, looking across the Duluth Harbor toward the Aerial Lift Bridge. Bob King /Forum News Service
    Tribal summit in Duluth will target pipelines
    DULUTH — About 70 representatives of Native American tribes in Canada, the Great Lakes region and North Dakota plan to gather in Duluth...
    NewsFebruary 10, 2017 - 6:33pm
    February 7, 2017
    NE MN county dives into federal copper mining debate
    DULUTH — St. Louis County commissioners will likely approve a resolution Tuesday, Feb. 7, calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to overturn a recently imposed copper mining prohibition near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
    News/regionFebruary 7, 2017 - 1:00am
    January 30, 2017
    Demonstrators gather protesting climate change outside the office of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in New York Jan. 9, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
    U.S. will change course on climate policy, says former EPA transition head
    LONDON—The United States will switch course on climate change and pull out of a global pact to cut emissions, said Myron Ebell, who headed...
    NewsJanuary 30, 2017 - 12:56pm
    January 25, 2017
    Canoeists that started at the headwaters of the Mississippi River paddle through northern Minnesota in this 2010 file photo. Forum News Service
    Mississippi River heavily polluted as it runs south
    DULUTH, Minn. -- The Mississippi River starts at Lake Itasca clear and clean, and pretty much stays that way as it winds through northern Minnesota’s...
    News/regionJanuary 25, 2017 - 6:33pm
    January 10, 2017
    Environmental groups planning lawsuit to stop PolyMet mine
    DULUTH — Two environmental groups on Tuesday said they will file suit in federal district court to stop the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine near Hoyt Lakes, Minn., a long-expected move that would mark the first legal action to stop the project.
    News/regionJanuary 10, 2017 - 10:02pm
    December 22, 2016
    Great Lakes get 22 million pounds of plastics annually
    A new study by Rochester Institute of Technology estimates that nearly 22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes every year. Scientists...
    News/regionDecember 22, 2016 - 10:20am
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