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Group Says Vermont Isn't Being Frank About Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions — and Plans to Sue
When then-president Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the international treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement in 2017, Vermont's… -
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Arts + Culture
The VSO's Jukebox Quartet Explores the 'Sound of Science'
Scientists can measure the rate at which glaciers melt by making underwater audio recordings of them shifting and calving, then reducing those sounds to… -
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Vermont Lawmakers May Have to Meet Growing Problems With a Shrinking Budget in 2024
When Vermont lawmakers return to the Statehouse next month, they'll face a growing list of intractable problems — rising crime, more frequent floods and… -
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UVM Scientists Unearth Bad News for Our Climate Future Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Halley Mastro slid a petri dish of liquid speckled with floating debris under a microscope. After adjusting the focus, she let a journalist… -
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Pipe Dream? It's Decision Time on Burlington's Long-Simmering Proposal to Heat Buildings With Wood-Fired Steam
For nearly two decades, Jan Schultz pushed local leaders to improve the efficiency of Burlington's wood-fired electricity plant. A retired software engineer who served… -
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Judge Dismisses Camel's Hump Logging Lawsuit
A Vermont judge has dismissed an environmental group’s effort to block logging in Camel’s Hump State Forest and other state lands. Standing Trees, a… -
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Burlington Council Approves Change to Allow Housing in South End District
A zoning change approved unanimously by Burlington city councilors on Monday paves the way for hundreds of new homes to be built where they… -
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Arts + Culture
Mammalian Mystery: A Middlebury Professor Follows the Trail of a Bahamian Rodent
Shortly after Alexis Mychajliw arrived at Middlebury College in 2021 to teach biology and environmental studies, she went to check out the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium's natural history collection in St. Johnsbury. Franklin Fairbanks founded the museum in 1889 when he transferred his vast "cabinet of curiosities" into naturalistic displays of animals, plants and birds from all over the world. -
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Use Your Words: A Mom and Early Childhood Educator Explains What She Learned About Managing Her Fear of the Climate Crisis
Feeling overwhelmed by the looming threat of climate change? You might be suffering from climate or eco-anxiety. The newish term encompasses both specific concerns,… -
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Scientists Seek Solutions to the Ever-Growing Problem of Ticks — and the Diseases They Carry
Not many years ago, it was unusual to encounter a tick in the Northeast Kingdom. Now the blood-sucking arachnids are a fact of life at… -
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Author Peter Shea Guides the Way to Vermont’s First Solar Eclipse in Nearly a Century
Peter Shea of Burlington has been fishing since grammar school, but on August 21, 2017, he caught something he'd never seen before. "Holy mackerel!"… -
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Vermont Needs More Green Power, but Locals Resist Large Projects. Where Should Our Energy Come From?
Ken Kennedy stood in the driveway of his vacation home on a hillside in Shaftsbury, dodging questions about the solar development planned for his… -
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The Over-60 Crowd Steps Up With Bill McKibben's Climate Action Group Third Act
Michael Weiss stood apart from the group of protesters outside Chase bank in Burlington last week. He was a few feet and four or… -
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From the Publisher: Still Here
On March 20, 2020, during the initial terror of the pandemic, Francesca Aida Fortuna Villemaire turned 100 at Burlington's Converse Home. The assisted living… -
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COVID Long-Haulers Struggle With Debilitating Symptoms, Few Treatment Options
When Adele Stafford, a long-distance runner, caught COVID-19 in June, the virus attacked her lungs with a ferocity greater than any marathon ever has.… -
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Arts + Culture
'When the Well Is Dry' at the Current Brings the Global Climate Crisis Up Close
To anyone concerned about the state of the Earth, an exhibition at the Current gallery in Stowe will provoke sadness, anger, outrage, fear. "When… -
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Vermont Officials Release Relaxed COVID-19 Guidance for the School Year
As Vermont students prepare to return to class this month, the state has loosened its school COVID-19 guidance in the belief that protocols can… -
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Pandemic-Weary Parents Weigh Vaccinating Their Kids Under 5 Against COVID-19
A basket of lollipops sat on a table in a large room at Middlebury's emergency services building last week, awaiting young patients. Masked workers… -
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A Hike in the Woods to See the State's Newly Discovered Endangered Orchid
The mood was festive as a quartet of botanists made its way toward Vermont's newly discovered rare orchid, the small whorled pogonia. Though the… -
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Vermont Is Racing to Build Housing — Often With Fossil Fuel Heating Systems
When residents of a new apartment building in Morrisville turn up their thermostats this fall, the warm air that flows into their bedrooms will… -
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Citing High Costs, Utility Regulators Reduce Solar Incentives
Vermont energy regulators have again reduced a key financial incentive for new solar electricity projects, hoping to slow the growth rate of the most… -
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South Burlington Science Teacher Goes Viral With TikTok Lessons
South Burlington middle school teacher Greg Wolf has been doing demonstrations to illustrate scientific principles to his students for more than 30 years. But… -
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Arts + Culture
UVM Pianist David Feurzeig Aims to Bring a Concert — and Climate Activism — to Every Vermont Town
Like many Vermonters, David Feurzeig is alarmed about the climate crisis. The pianist and University of Vermont music professor lives in a net-metered house… -
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Checkup: How Can Parents Help Kids Deal With Changing COVID-19 Policies?
"Masks on! Masks off! Keep your distance! Never mind. You kids can play together again — just don't share snacks!" The last two years… -
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Vermont Climate Council Translates Emails to Be More Inclusive
The Vermont Climate Council email stood out not for what it said but for in how many languages it said them. The otherwise standard…
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