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• Climate Change in Minnesota: An MPR News special report
Minnesota is warmer than it used to be. Rain falls in bigger downpours. Hay fever sufferers have a longer sneezing season, and the ticks that deliver Lyme disease are expanding their range. Red maple trees are moving north. So are purple finches. Moose numbers have shrunk.
Without question, the state’s climate has changed in recent decades. And that’s had an impact on the lives of its wildlife, its plants, its people.
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/02/climate-change-primer
http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/?elq=3d34d8b90977498d87588724b16139ef&elqCampaignId=4993
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