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                    <description><![CDATA[Enbridge, which operates two pipelines in MN, fined a record $3.7 million for 2010 river spill.  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[EPA, Sierra Club and Dairyland Cooperative make a multi-million dollar deal to cut air emissions.  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[U of M study looks at how suburban plants exchange carbon winter and summer  ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Isle Royale wolf mystery solved]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Researchers found the bodies of three adult wolves dead in an abandoned mine shaft.  One was a young female, who could have made the wolves survival possible. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[What impact will hunting have on the eastward movement of cougars?  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[ProPublica investigates environmental impact of oil and toxic spills in western North Dakota's energy boom.   ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Feds probe report of eagle killed by MN wind turbine ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[If confirmed, it would be the first known death of an eagle at a wind farm in Minnesota.  ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA['Leaping Dragon Fish': A world view of Asian carp]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Researcher compares carp in the Yangtze and Mississippi rivers. Turns out -- we have more.  ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Toxic pillow cases  ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Series on flame retardants is lighting up the internet and sending moms to Washington in protest. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Just a little treat.... ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[BBC and David Attenborough deliver a visual feast of the world around us.  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The short answer: 5.4 percent of transportation funds pay for the 10 percent who bike or walk to work ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[County Commissioners approved the construction of a quarry that will turn the famous granite outcrops to aggregate  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[From Minnetonka to Brazil, Minnesota native blogs from the edge of the rain forest in Brazil.   ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[National Forest announces new forest supervisor and other changes  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A wolf photo and story heats up in the west  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[U researcher says landowners feel personal responsibility to keep water clean, but there is little civic engagement.  ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Just in time for spring, the National Forest Service has issued its wildflower map, including sites in MN. ]]></description>
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