Abagael Giles

Starting this month, fire chiefs in Vermont will also serve as town forest fire wardens, unless they deputize someone else to fill the role.

Wildfire smoke is becoming more of an issue in Vermont and across the country. Here are some resources to help with smoke exposure when air quality gets dangerous.

The state has conserved four new tracts of land in central and northern Vermont that environmental officials say will support biodiversity and flood resiliency.

For more than a decade, anglers on Lake Memphremagog have been catching brown bullhead catfish that are riddled with tumors.

The cancer manifests as raised black lesions on the fish’s skin, along with lumpy tumors. The cause has long eluded scientists, but now, a team of local researchers says the animals have a rare form of cancer that is contagious and spreads like a parasite.

This summer, scientists are looking for a sometimes toxic organism that grows underwater in freshwater lakes, ponds and rivers to see if it's prevalent in Lake Champlain.

Several towns and land trusts across Vermont have secured funding to permanently conserve more than 2,000 acres of land, starting this summer.

A Vermont waste management company has been testing a system to remove toxic man-made chemicals known as PFAS from wastewater at the landfill it operates in Coventry.

Casella is testing new technology to remove PFAS from contaminated liquid at its Coventry landfill. State regulators don’t plan to set limits on PFAS in air emissions from the facility.

For more than 30 years, Vermont scientists have been setting up floating rafts where loons can build their nests.