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  • Minnesota Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice

    September 20, 2022 - 8:33 AM

    ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up.

  • Pastoralists have raised livestock in harsh climates for millennia. What can they teach us today?

    November 16, 2023 - 7:34 AM

    SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — The moon glowed in the predawn Mongolia sky as Agvaantogtokh and his family prepared for another big move. On horseback, he rode to a well with nearly a thousand sheep and goats. Occasionally, he and his wife, Nurmaa, stopped to help struggling young ones, weak after a harsh winter.

  • Pastoralists have raised livestock in harsh climates for millennia. What can they teach us today?

    November 16, 2023 - 7:27 AM

    SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — The half-crescent moon glowed in the predawn Mongolia sky as Agvaantogtokh and his family began preparing for yet another big move with their animals.

  • At Home: Gear, toys, tips to help beat the heat outdoors

    July 26, 2022 - 7:21 AM

    The thermostat has officially hit swelter. Whether you're trying to play in the backyard or just chill outdoors, there's a bunch of new ideas and gear designed to help everyone — pets included — stay cool.

  • Climate-driven flooding poses well water contamination risks

    June 08, 2022 - 12:22 PM

    ST. LOUIS (AP) — After a record-setting Midwestern rainstorm that damaged thousands of homes and businesses, Stefanie Johnson’s farmhouse in Blandinsville, Illinois, didn’t have safe drinking water for nearly two months.

  • Affordable housing, long overlooked, getting federal boost

    March 25, 2022 - 11:22 AM

    BOSTON (AP) — After her home flooded five times in the past year, Tilicia Owens was on edge with every impending storm and ready to leave her Detroit neighborhood behind.

  • Home insurance can be more expensive in smaller towns: experts

    October 07, 2021 - 12:58 PM

    As some Canadians are priced out of larger cities and look to move to smaller communities, insurance experts say homebuyers should be aware that life in a small town can often mean higher home insurance premiums.

  • Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

    August 30, 2021 - 9:36 PM

    CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California’s dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large vats of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The vats connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it’s lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region.

  • Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

    August 30, 2021 - 9:35 PM

    CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California’s dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large containers of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The containers connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it's lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region.

  • Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

    August 30, 2021 - 4:10 PM

    CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California’s dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large vats of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The vats connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it’s lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

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