Recent News Coverage
Regional, National and International media coverage of NRRI research.
- – Minnesota's forests a haven where rare warbler still sings – Star Tribune
- – Whitefish campaign seeks to lift fisheries while fish stocks drop – Spartan News Room, Michigan State University
- – U of M researchers seeking to cut down state's number of car-deer crashes – CBS Minnesota
- – U.S. Steel investment in Iron Range could extend region's relevance in industry – Star Tribune
- – It's bats! – WDSE
- – Local bat populations decimated by fungal infection – Northern News Now
- – Northern Minnesota experiment attracted some fishers — and other critters, too – Duluth News Tribune
- – Reports from Minnesota's 2022 grouse season – Duluth News Tribune
- – Green Visions: Electronic Waste – The North 103.3
- – Wisconsin habitat work hoped to save troubled Connecticut warbler – Duluth News Tribune
- – Core Conversations: The Future of Mining – PBS Almanac North
- – Young researchers do complex work with a simple truth: Natural resources at the center – Star Tribune
- – ForCAST is a modeling tool to help plan future forest management – WDIO
- – Cold, clear days help generate those colorful leaves – WDIO
- – Why deer crossing signs have disappeared from Minnesota highways – Local Today
- – Northern Minnesota researchers close in on sulfate pollution solution – MPR News
- – Treating stormwater with local by-products reduces road construction costs, minimizes waste – UMN Center for Transportation Studies
- – Constraints on the adjustment of tidal marshes to accelerating sea level rise – University of Minnesota Research Brief
- – What is Blue-Green Algae? A Conversation with Dr. Chris Filstrup from NRRI – KAXE radio
- – UMD scientists study phytoplankton, the base of Great Lakes food chain – Duluth News Tribune
- – Do you enjoy bird watching? Researchers need your help this summer – KBJR News
- – Duluth-based scientists get $3 million grant to study Great Lakes' phytoplankton – Star Tribune
- – Scientists get grant to monitor bottom of Great Lakes food chain – WDIO
- – Water test: a long history and hopeful future of human impact on Great Lakes ecology – Great Lakes Echo
- – Local officials noticeably absent – Aitken Age
- – Draft Environmental Assessment about mineral withdrawal released – WDIO
- – Ten years after catastrophic flood of 2012, is Duluth ready for the next one? – Star Tribune
- – Duluth's Arbor Wood growing in soft Minnesota timber trade, opening Eveleth plant – Star Tribune
- – Recent runoff, incoming summer weather increases threat of blue-green algae – KBJR News
- – Talking Minnesota’s migratory birds with U of M – University of Minnesota Talking with U of M
- – Damming research: Study finds beavers might not be all bad for trout streams – Duluth News Tribune
- – Minnesota Researchers Will Count Dead Deer to Prevent Future Vehicle Collisions – Field & Stream
- – Minnesota drivers may hit 20 times the deer reported to state – Duluth News Tribune
- – Rarely seen fisher cat caught on camera prowling a snowy forest floor – Earth Touch News Network
- – Insect pests continue to threaten trees near Lake Superior, BWCA – WTIP North Shore Community Radio
- – With renewable energy storage in infancy, House panel looks at bill laying out state standards – MN House of Representatives Session Daily news
- – Potential impacts of emerald ash borer on wildlife in black ash wetlands – University of Minnesota Research Brief
- – Industrial scale research at NRRI – Mesabi Tribune
- – New process building sought at Coleraine lab – Mesabi Tribune
- – Lucinda Johnson appointed to IJC chair position – Duluth News Tribune
- – Scientists using DNA to track invasive species – Duluth News Tribune
- – Thermally Modified Wood Market is set to Garner Staggering Revenues by 2025- TMR – Inter Press Service News Agency
- – Study analyzes beavers as 'ecosystem engineers' near North Shore rivers – WTIP North Shore Community Radio
- – More gear coming to help boaters contain invasive starry stonewort algae on Minnesota lakes – Star Tribune
- – Study reveals woodcock wintering grounds – Duluth News Tribune
- – Beaver dams important to freshwater ecosystems – Red Wing Republican Eagle
- – New study demonstrates the value of beavers as ecosystem engineers – TBNewsWatch.com
- – Research finds beavers a critical component of Northland forests – Duluth News Tribune
- – Beavers support freshwater conservation and ecosystem stability – University of Minnesota Research Brief
- – Minnesota researchers to study how climate change affects flying squirrels – Grand Forks Herald
- – A bright future for mining – Business North
- – Almanac North - NRRI Research, Superior Snowplows, CHUM Leadership – WDSE
- – Arbor Wood uses thermal modification for more durable products – Business North
- – Continuous warming of the Great Lakes is becoming worrisome, experts say – CBS Duluth
- – Green Visions: Recognizing and Restoring Peatlands – The North 103.3
- – Connecticut warbler down to single nesting site in Wisconsin – Duluth News Tribune
- – Are Minnesota's creek restorations working? – Star Tribune
- – Outstate MN: Innovation in Northeast Minnesota – tech.mn
- – Mushrooms sprouting all over Northland – WDIO
- – Historic wildfires once destroyed entire cities in northern Minnesota. Could it happen again? – Star Tribune
- – Fall foliage update: some areas will be more colorful than others – WDIO
- – University of Minnesota Duluth woodcock study finds habitat needs – Duluth News Tribune
- – Hybrid Poplar and the New Bioeconomy podcast – University of Minnesota Extension
- – Environments that Minnesota's fish depend on face their own challenges – Star Tribune
- – Wildlife managers foresee winners, losers as climate change alters MN forests – Star Tribune
- – ‘Iron of the Future’ program looks to new iron making technologies – Business North
- – For 2 weeks every August, Duluth is the nighthawk capital of the world – Minnesota Public Radio
- – Research underway about harmful algal blooms – WDIO
- – Editorials Our View: Federal infrastructure bill could be a boon for Minnesota metals mining – Duluth News Tribune
- – What did the topography of the Iron Range look like before it was mined? – Star Tribune
- – Heat wave spurs harmful algal blooms – Stillwater Gazette
- – Project Shows Low Value Tamarack Is a Marketable Product – Timberline Magazine
- – Scientists look for clues to Lake Superior algae blooms – Minnesota Public Radio
- – Chequamegon Bay tern is oldest ever on Great Lakes – Superior Telegram
- – Local tern is second-oldest known – Ashland Daily Press
- – Making the grade: NRRI Coleraine researchers working to develop DR-grade pellet production – Grand Rapids Herald Review
- – As climate warms, northern flying squirrels are moving out of the Northland – Duluth News Tribune
- – Help report water levels on Duluth streams – Duluth News Tribune
- – NRRI Looks to Public to Measure Stream Height – Fox21
- – Researchers asking for public's help measuring Duluth streams – Star Tribune
- – UMD’s NRRI group seeks help to protect Duluth’s waterways – KBJR6
- – NioCorp working with Weir Minerals, NRRI on Elk Creek HPGR test work – International Mining
- – Wood turtles declining in Minnesota – Duluth News Tribune