The St. Louis River isn't going to take a back seat to Lake Superior any longer.

Monday's decision by the Minnesota Court of Appeals to uphold the PUC's approval of Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline came as a blow to environmental activists like Winona LaDuke, who only three days before had joined a press call with other activists to celebrate the abandonment of the Keystone XL pipeline. But when asked when enough is enough, if there is a point where she will give up, LaDuke says, "I'm in it 'till the end."

Duluth is surrounded by beautiful parks, and after a year or more of staying home, we're all ready to get outside. But for some folks, the yearly state park pass or even the day permit isn't in the budget. The solution? Head to the Duluth Public Library , present your library card and check out a free pass to a state park - any state park - for up to a week. More information about the MN State Parks Library Program is available here:

Ecolibrium3 is at it again. Lincoln Park's sustainiability and revitalization hub plans to welcome an expanded cohort of VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) volunteers in August to serve 26 non-profit and public agencies all across northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began to dredge contaminated sediment out of Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin.

Alexis Grinde thinks she has the best job in the world. And if you love birds, being paid to study them and talk to people about them isn't a bag gig at all. There's good news to report, including fewer species with the plummeting numbers we saw back in the day with eagle and other raptor populations being ravaged by DDT. But the slow decline of many other species means bird lovers need to act now.

The Minnesota Supreme Court's decision to rescind PolyMet's permit to mine in essence, returned both mining and environmental advocates to their respective corners - but both are claiming victory. PolyMet is hoping they can avoid hearings on the "upstream" mine waste dam and its majority owner, Glencore. But environmentalists, who have found problems with additional project permits since 2018 are hoping this is a good place to stop, reassess and ask the hard question: Can this project move ahead

No stops in Duluth for the Research Vessel (R/V) Lake Guardian this year, but they're anything but out of touch. The April mission to sample water and biological organisms in all five Great Lakes left Milwaukee April 1, and the 11 scientists aboard have been working 12 hour shifts to collect samples and data.

Dr. Ben Santer's life changed that day he got a phone call from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , asking him to be the lead author of a chapter on the causes of climate change for the 1995 Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) . The world changed the day these words were published: “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.”