Court upholds MPCA’s wild rice sulfate limits downstream of Iron Range mine
The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a state agency’s decision to deny an iron ore mine and processing plant’s request to ...
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Minnesota court upholds wild rice sulfate limits downstream of mine
The court sided with the MPCA, which rejected U.S. Steel's request to allow sulfate levels nearly eight times higher than the standard for wild rice waters in Hay Lake.
NASA's Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for ...
Curiosity rover makes ‘arguably the most exciting organic detection to date on Mars’
The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.