Land of 10,000 Lakes: how Minnesota's most sacred resource made headlines in 2023
Here's a look back at how our waters have changed in 2023, but our love for it has not.
Watch CBS News
Here's a look back at how our waters have changed in 2023, but our love for it has not.
Wild rice — or Manoomin as the Ojibwe call it — is one of the Midwest's most sacred plants. But extreme weather is having tangible consequences on our state's water cycle and puts native vegetation at risk.
Wild rice – or Manoomin as the Ojibwe call it — is one of the Midwest's most sacred plants. But extreme weather, from record snow to destructive floods, is having tangible consequences on our state's water cycle and puts native vegetation at risk.
Wild rice is one of the Midwest's most sacred plants, which is why researchers and tribal nations are forging partnerships to protect and better understand the needs of it today.
Researchers will soon release new findings that show nearly 50% of Minnesota's natural shorelines have vanished. Now many lake property owners find themselves questioning their own impact on the shore.
For the last 20 years, Minnesota has been battling PFAS - toxic, synthetic chemicals that can invade the environment and have proved difficult to remove.
It's been over a year since the controversial Line 3 pipeline started operating in Minnesota.
Minnesota's waters are home to an abundance of native fish. Scientists believe over 200 million years ago some of the country's oldest and largest freshwater fish found refuge here: the lake sturgeon.
