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The Latest Breaking News from the Upper Midwest

Chicago’s industrial wetlands were written off for decades, but scientists found a large colony of endangered black-crowned night herons nesting there

For most of the twentieth century, the marshland tucked into Chicago's Calumet region was treated as little more than industrial leftover space, a stretch of land scarred by heavy manufacturing, solid waste dumping and decades of altered water flow. Few people expected anything to thrive there. Yet buried among the…

The Times of India

Severe storms pummel parts of US with snow and high winds and raise tornado threat

A severe weather front sweeping across much of the eastern half of the U.S. has dumped heavy snow around the Upper Midwest, spawned thunderstorms in the South and is threatening several mid-Atlantic states with heavy rain and possible tornadoes

The Independent UK

Powerful storms make their way across US bringing everything from tornados to snow

Several airports felt the impact from the severe weather with flight delays and cancelations

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Storm systems bring heavy rain to the Pacific Northwest and a wintry mix to the Upper Midwest

The first of a series of powerful storms is slamming the Pacific Northwest, dumping heavy rain and swelling rivers

The Independent UK

Unhealthy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Upper Midwest when people want to be outside

Wildfire smoke from Canada has made for bad air quality over parts of the Upper Midwest

The Independent UK

Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition

When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest

The Independent UK

Behind Upper Midwest tribal spearfishing is a long and violent history of denied treaty rights

A fraught and violent history for centuries disrupted Indigenous people’s lives in the Upper Midwest, barring them from traditional food gathering practices like spearfishing, hunting and harvesting wild rice

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Snowmelt leads to heavy flooding from Southwest to Rockies

A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing residents there and in the Upper Midwest to stock up on sandbags amid surging creeks and rivers

The Independent UK

Tornadoes Kill at Least 11 Across US Midwest and South

Tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest killed at least 11 people, collapsed the roof of a packed theater during a heavy metal concert in Illinois, and left small towns and big cities throughout the region bewildered Saturday by the damage. Possibly dozens of tornadoes touched down…

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