Its vast size and unique geography, with glaciers ... Known as the "land of 10,000 lakes," Minnesota actually has 14,380 lakes of over 10 acres. It holds the record for the most named lakes ...

WCCO has been reporting for weeks about the impacts of the northeastern Minnesota wildfires on the ... impact on overall water quality in these lakes," says Dr. Christopher Filstrup, a lake ...

Filstrup studies lakes and streams as a limnologist at the University of Minnesota’s Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth. His study of 15 lakes found they became a lot murkier after ...

But their spread is much more advanced in Minnesota (and nearby states like Wisconsin and Michigan) because of the wide distribution of so many lakes and streams, Frelich said. That geography ...

A few centuries ago, a pair of bison in northwestern Minnesota took their last breaths in a peat bog. Their remains are now at the center of an exhibit marrying science and art in Detroit Lakes.

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — In his 40 years as a fishing guide, Jeff Sundin of Grand Rapids has seen the lake ice season shorten firsthand. “Without a doubt, the last several years, the arrival of ...