Environment

Tom Nelson was an electrical engineer living in Minnesota who got involved in a birding controversy. Britt Aamodt reports how the engineer weighed on the resurrection of the ivory-billed woodpecker, believed extinct for over 70 years. [Read Transcript...]

It isn’t a Minnesota summer with the sound of a loon coming off the lake. Producer Britt Aamodt wonders what are all those sounds the loon makes and what do they mean? [Read Transcript...]

There are rocks in Northern Minnesota that are older than you think. MN90 producer Britt Aamodt finds out they weren’t always rocks either. [Read Transcript...]

Minnesotans grouse about long, cold winters now. But until 10,000 years ago, those long cold stretches were positively glacial, says Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]