If built, the five-state pipeline network would send carbon emissions from ethanol plants to a permanent underground storage ...

Results from a decades-long field study in Minnesota reveal the dangerous impact of rising carbon dioxide and nitrogen ...

As a retired DNR manager, I know how important Minnesota’s peatlands are to our state’s natural heritage and community wellbeing. Our peatlands were formed over the last 5,000 years – following the ...

A mix of outdoor stories from Minnesota, including information on a "Vote for public lands" hunt coming up on Nov. 5.

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Special hunts will take place at other Minnesota state parks and recreation areas this fall, and access to the parks will vary. Park visitors are advised to check the alerts and notices on state park ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s slim new book, “The Serviceberry,” is a meditation on communing with nature and cultivating connections with one another.

Earthworms may be helpful in a compost heap or in the soil of a vegetable garden. But they are a destructive force in Minnesota’s hardwood forests – chomping up entire layers of the forest floor and ...

Pesticides have been found in high concentrations in ground and surface water sources in Minnesota, not only posing a risk to local wildlife but possibly also contaminating drinking water for many of ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ... help water treatment plants determine what to monitor ...

The Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, approved in 1988 to use money from the Minnesota Lottery and ... to shape back Vesta’s banks and plant the shrubs. About $243,000 of trust ...

Otters are now common in all of northern Minnesota and are becoming more common in southern parts of the state. The DNR estimates there are about 12,000 otters in Minnesota.