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  • Minnesota-grown technology helps scientists track wildlife around the globe

    Dan Kraker

    February 13, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Isanti, Minnesota

    The Minnesota-based company Advanced Telemetry Systems develops trackers specifically designed for hundreds of different animals. These devices allow researchers to do things like find invasive species, learn more about critically endangered species, or better understand population declines.

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  • Digging into Minnesota's peat, an underappreciated climate superhero

    Dan Kraker

    October 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    Researchers are studying the peatlands in Minnesota to understand how to best enhance their carbon storage and minimize carbon and methane emissions as the climate warms.

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  • As climate changes, cities grapple with big rains

    Dan Kraker

    February 04, 2015 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Duluth, Minnesota

    While some parts of the United States struggle with drought, others are faced with more water than they know what to do with. Minnesota reconstructs roads and drainage systems in order to be more prepared for the large amounts of rain fall they have received, largely due to climate change.

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  • Rain Man: How one Tucson resident harvests the rain

    Dan Kraker

    May 29, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Some Tucson residents have begun looking at water as a crop, something to harvest to lessen the reliance of Tucson's burgeoning population on water sucked from the ground and imported from the Colorado River.

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  • What Minnesota can learn from Arizona about water

    Dan Kraker

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson, AZ, adopted measures, such as limiting new wells and making water rights sellable, that have slashed per capita water consumption by 35 percent. It is now considered a national leader in water conservation and perhaps has lessons for Minnesota as it grapples with its own groundwater shortages.

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  • Desert city uses water, then uses it again

    Dan Kraker

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson has slashed its per capita water consumption by more than a third, and one of the more startling ways it's done that is by reusing water after it's flushed down the toilet or run through a washing machine.

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  • Tucson's water ethic: Blueprint for Minnesota?

    Dan Kraker

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Forty years ago, Tuscon faced a water crisis. Now, even after decades of population and economic growth, water consumption has been declining and, under much of the city, groundwater levels have been rising, due in equal parts to regulatory, financial, and cultural shifts.

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