Ingrid Lyons of Save the Boundary Waters says scientific research shows the area is the wrong place for copper-nickel mining ...

Minnesota's million-acre (400,000-hectare) Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the second largest wilderness east of the Rockies and surprisingly easy to access. Bill Forsberg, Jr., owner of ...

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to reverse the Biden administration’s actions blocking copper-nickel mining near ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is America's most-visited federally designated wilderness area. This 1.1 million–acre expanse is located in the northern third of the Superior National Forest ...

The proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine would be located near Birch Lake, pictured, in a region of Minnesota that drains directly into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. (Brian Peterson/Th ...

"This is not hyperbole ... this is based on Trump’s campaign promises and attacks he has already made on the Boundary Waters, ...

Advocates against mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters were hit with another setback Tuesday when a Washington, D.C., judge ruled that the Department of the Interior’s return of mineral leases to ...

That’s a landslide like you never see any more, I would argue, except maybe in a few districts. … It tells you where ...

The Minnesota DNR sued Lake County on Oct. 3 to stop the expansion of a century-old resort on the lake. (Jenna Ross/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

“The [Minnesota] Zoo called me out of the blue,” Leonard said. “This 1,700-pound Beluga whale had a big lesion on its jaw and they didn’t know what to do.” Leonard, the former head of pediatric ...

Southern and the two species of northern right whales live in temperate Atlantic or Pacific waters, often near the coast. Right whales were named by whalers who identified them as the “right ...

In Minnesota, you can see conservation efforts in action at multiple zoos, explore remote wilderness in the Boundary Waters or shop ... About 7 miles north is Split Rock Lighthouse State Park.