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Scientists examined four aquifers across Minnesota to determine if aquifer storage and recovery — which aims to treat, inject and temporarily store clean water in aquifers — may provide a solution to meet future demands of residents, industry and agriculture. 

Abdennour Abbas, a UMN researcher and co-founder of "green chemistry" company Claros Technologies, hopes to address a state water pollution problem. 

The New York Times features UMN professor Donald Wyse in Visionaries, a limited series that looks at figures who are trying to transform the way we live.

MPR reporter joins a team of researchers from the Nature Conservancy and the University of Minnesota to learn more about their efforts to mitigate climate change. 

In the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center, 20,000 tiny yellow perch swim in circles in two large, blue tubs of water, occasionally bubbling to the surface to nibble on food floating there.

Lakes across the Midwest are losing cold, oxygenated habitat as a result of climate change and nutrient pollution. This loss of critical habitat has negative consequences for water quality, fish, and the production of greenhouse gases. 

Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining at rates faster than in the oceans, according to new research from the University of Minnesota and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

University of Minnesota researchers, along with colleagues at institutions from the University of Kansas (KU), University of California-Irvine (UCI) and others, found that wetland restoration and construction along waterways are the most cost-effective way to reduce nitrate and sediment loads in large streams and rivers.

Biochar, a material made from organic resources like wood, grasses and manure, is heated to an extremely high temperature, and when processed properly, biochar can return carbon and other nutrients to the soil. Researchers think it could ultimately help forests in Minnesota combat drought caused by the climate crisis.

In a recent study published in Heliyon, researchers from the University of Minnesota and Kenya Wildlife Service recorded wildlife roadkill in the Tsavo Conservation Area over an 11-year period —from 2007 to 2018 — providing the first major assessment of direct mortality of animal species along Kenya’s primary infrastructure corridor.