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“Warm Front” examines the ways that climate change is altering Minnesota and its landscape.

Along one Minnesota river, ice and walleyes signal a changing climate

Anglers hit the Rainy River as walleye spawn in spring. But this year, for the first time, the DNR imposed catch-and-release rules on the border river

Around the world, climate change is forcing people to revamp the way they fight wildfires and nurture their crops. In Minnesota, the same forces are changing the state's response to spring floods, the way foresters choose trees for timber and which lakefronts can have summer cabins.

Invasive grasses choke birds' habitat as climate changes

Fluctuating levels on Mississippi, ushered in by warming climate, doom floodplain forests.

As lakes warm, race is on to save Minnesota's cold-water fish

As lakes warm, scientists hope to nurture refuge waters for tiny cisco, a key food for game fish

Aging stormwater systems were not built for this volume of rain

Across Minnesota, cities large and small are scrambling to upgrade storm sewers, culverts, roadways and drainage ponds as they find themselves deluged by ever-more intense storms and flash flooding.

New crop of bugs threatens Minnesota's orchards, fields

Warming winters, longer growing seasons and wetter weather all make Minnesota more hospitable to the invasive pests.