Abagael Giles
Reporter, Environment & Climate ChangeAbagael is ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý's climate and environment reporter, focusing on the energy transition and how the climate crisis is impacting Vermonters â€� and Vermont’s landscape.
Abagael joined ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý in 2020. Previously, she was the assistant editor at Vermont Sports and Vermont Ski + Ride magazines. She covered dairy and agriculture for The Addison Independent and got her start covering land use, water and the Los Angeles Aqueduct for The Sheet: News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra in Mammoth Lakes, Ca.
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A new study from the University of Vermont takes the first-ever look at how much carbon is stored in wood in streams across the Northeast. -
At a hearing Tuesday night, commercial anglers urged state regulators not to adopt proposed changes to Vermont’s panfish rules. -
A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems. The answer is: a lot. -
For 121 years, Canadians have enjoyed free access to the library through the stateside front door without having to go through customs. -
Johnson-based Vermont Electric Cooperative will use a new software tool that helps small utilities identify places where their grid infrastructure is vulnerable to power outages because of climate change. -
Royalton is the latest Vermont town to consider beefing up its existing regulations on what people can do with properties that regularly flood. Community response there could yield helpful lessons for the state. -
A popular trail system previously maintained by a local family on private property has been acquired as federal land in Wallingford. -
Without intervention, education officials say health care costs will continue to eat up ever-larger shares of local school budgets � regardless of which cost-saving measures Montpelier imposes on districts. Plus, Middlebury is among the handful of municipalities presenting water infrastructure bonds to voters on Town Meeting Day, Sen. Welch is calling for Republicans to support Ukraine, the state is proposing changes for waterfowl hunters, and Caledonia County’s sheriff has died. -
Across the state, several Vermont towns are voting on major infrastructure bonds this Town Meeting Day. Here are some of the big ticket items. -
Preliminary data from the Agency of Natural Resources confirms what some environmental groups warned � that Vermont is likely not going to meet its first emissions reduction deadline under the Global Warming Solutions Act.
