Abagael Giles
Reporter, Environment & Climate ChangeAbagael is Vermont Public's climate and environment reporter, focusing on the energy transition and how the climate crisis is impacting Vermonters — and Vermont’s landscape.
Abagael joined Vermont Public 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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As New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their environment. New England scientists are looking at some promising ways to help. -
In an executive order signed Tuesday, President Trump took aim at Vermont and other state climate laws he says are impeding his federal agenda to promote domestic fossil fuel production. -
An Addison County farm is asking the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets for permission to add almost 600 cows to their operation. Some are skeptical because of the farm's history of environmental violations. -
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.
