Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Three years of ground-breaking research shows that Minnesota’s controversial standard to protect wild rice waters from ...

The process by which plants and algae acquire sulfur—converting sulfate into sulfide—requires a lot of energy and produces harmful intermediates and byproducts that need to be immediately transformed.

Sulfur is a fundamental element of life and all organisms need it to synthesize cellular materials. Autotrophs, such as plants and algae, acquire sulfur by converting sulfate into sulfide, which can ...

Minnesota’s approach to protecting wild rice from sulfate pollution faces a key test this week. A group of scientists recruited from around the country will evaluate the state’s analysis of a series ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Tuesday said it will protect the state's wild rice from sulfate pollution by using a new, lake-by-lake, river-by-river approach rather than a statewide ...