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Three-year study identifies conservation concern for native Minnesota fish.

The UMD Robotics Club, was selected as the recipient of the 2023 University of Minnesota Systemwide Sustainability Student Impact Award!

Minnesota joins nine states in effort to develop zero emissions ironmaking and ultra-low life cycle emissions steelmaking.

Annually, only 15 percent of textile waste is recycled while over 90 million tons of textiles are discarded globally and 14.5 million tons are incinerated or put into landfills in the United States alone.  UMD researchers are working on a solution. 

To honor Earth Week, the Motion + Media Across Disciplines (MMAD) Lab and UMD Sustainability Office will showcase videos from its Climate Change Storytelling project, which started a year ago on Earth Day and has resulted in numerous videos, public speaking engagements, community visioning sessions and art work.

NRRI researchers find that size of fire matters less than intensity of the blaze. Wildfires in northern Minnesota are increasing – the number, the size and the intensity. Within most folks' memories are the Ham Lake Fire (2007), Pagami Creek Fire (2012) and most recently, the Greenwood Fire (2021). Each scorched large swaths of the state’s prized wilderness areas and challenged humans who were too close.

Early on a cool, smoky June morning researchers Alexis Grinde and Annie Bracey load up with gear and strike out across a grassland south of Moorhead, Minn.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota in Duluth recently unveiled a new kind of tree after 20 years of research. 

The Indian Child Welfare Act was designed to counteract decades of policies and systems that uprooted Native American children from their families and culture. Minnesota has its own version of the law, called the Minnesota Indian Family Protection Act and UMD has a training program for social workers called the Tribal Training and Certification Partnership.

WCCO interview with Ryan Hueffmeier at the University of Minnesota's Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center. Who has been studying worms for almost two decades with the Great Lakes Worm Watch program.