climate change
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Climate Matters: While CO2 reduction effort progresses, more work is needed
While conservation and efficiency are important components of an overall strategy to get to our GHG reduction goal, we can’t get to an 80% reduction by conservation and…
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Climate Matters: As climate crisis rages, Green Mt. National Forest misses the boat
It is widely understood that cutting mature forests is bad for the climate. Last year the public responded with over 1,300 comments against logging and less than 100…
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Climate Catalysts Leadership Program to be held in Montpelier
The Vermont Council on Rural Development is seeking applicants for its fifth Climate Catalysts Leadership Program.
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Winter temperatures are rising in county
The unusually balmy winter has affected some local businesses whose offerings rely on cold weather and reflects a larger trend of warming winters driven by human-caused climate change.
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Letter to the editor: Lawmakers must take action on environmental bills
Anyone paying attention to the relentless stream of “natural” disasters around the world knows that we need to make big changes to how we make and use energy,…
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Farmers and researchers mull climate change in Vt.
The past year has brought its fair share of weather-related challenges for Vermont farmers. Following summer floods and a damaging spring frost, growers around the state saw their…
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Turtles, frogs hanging around in warmer winter
Herpetologist Jim Andrews has received some particularly noteworthy news — accounts of reptiles and amphibians active in late December, a time of year when those creatures have typically…
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Editorial: Freakish storms, hottest year, send unmistakable message
We don’t want to say it’s part of the new normal, whatever that might mean, but it’s no coincidence that these freakish storms are related to higher-than-normal global…
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Editorial: Sharpening skates for a race that may never come
As we enter the New Year, the weather is on our minds partly because it has been so unusually warm and snowless; but more to the point it’s…
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As the climate changes, more Vermonters rely on state climatologist
In the days and months after the July floods that devastated much of Vermont, Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux’s inbox filled with requests.
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Climate Matters: False solutions or a greener path for Vt.?
This has been a brutal year for many Vermonters, with waves of extreme weather driven by climate change.
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Rain prompts Middlebury road closures, early school dismissal
Persistent rain flooded some roads in Middlebury on Monday, prompting the Addison Central School District to close schools in town early.
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Student survey explores energy-efficiency efforts
Several students at Middlebury College spent part of their fall semester out in the community rather than inside the classroom, speaking with the owners and managers of nonresidential…
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Community forum: All must stand united for the Earth
For years, my generation has been defined as the “climate generation,” the generation that will fix all of the damage done to global health and climate change post-Industrial…
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Climate Matters: It’s time to prepare for climate migration… now
I fear that, in some important ways, we Vermonters have our heads in the sand about climate change and its likely impacts.
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Clippings: Are we smart enough to survive?
I was excited to tell you how much my family has loved watching “Life on Our Planet,” the new Morgan Freeman-narrated nature doc on Netflix — a great…