Finstad wrote that many of the groups that sent the petition "have a well-documented history of anti-agriculture ...

A new playlist of educational videos presented by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture shows how the flow of groundwater in southeast Minnesota is unlike anywhere else in the state. The five ...

Two legislature-sponsored studies show that a warming, drying climate would threaten the ability of peat bogs to store carbon and that Minnesota's geology is not appropriate for storing carbon ...

Minnesota winters are infamous, but ice and snow affected more than just the local culture. They also shaped the very ground on which the Twin Cities are built. The glacial history of the Twin ...

University of Minnesota researchers have discovered an ancient crater lying 350 feet below a Mississippi River suburb. A team of scientists at the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) – part of the ...

Later today in southeastern Minnesota, Winona County will hold two forums on frack sand mining. That might not sound terribly exciting, but the sand mining is a controversial topic in southeastern ...

Let’s go back to the mid-1800s: Minnesota was a new state, with settlers pouring in, ready to farm, mine, log and help the Twin Cities grow. But not much was known about this state’s resources ...

Geologists from the University of Minnesota have found a crater 11 times larger than the iconic Meteor Crater in Arizona. The crater is hidden about 350 feet below the city of Inver Grove Heights ...

Their locations were themselves determined by geology: St. Paul has a strong natural harbor because of the bend in the river, while Minneapolis was built around the power-producing St. Anthony Falls.