Tag: Vermont

How climate change is muting America’s famous fall foliage

by Peter HUTCHISON Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – America’s northeast is famous for its red, orange and yellow fall foliage but experts say climate change is dulling the colors and delaying peak season, causing concern for the region’s multibillion-dollar “leaf-peeping” tourist industry. Warmer temperatures and heavier rainfall are keeping leaves greener for longer while extreme weather events like heatwaves and storms are stripping trees bare before getting to autumn, according to conservationists. […]

Continue Reading →

School boy, 14, runs for Vermont governor

  NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Most 14-year-old American schoolboys might be fixated on baseball, chasing girls and dodging their homework. Not Ethan Sonneborn. He’s running for governor in Vermont. The teenager is taking advantage of a quirk in the constitution of the bucolic northeastern state that imposes no age limit on running for governor. Candidates only have to have lived in Vermont for at least four years. Ethan, happily for his campaign, has […]

Continue Reading →

US election is about more than beating Trump: Sanders

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday exhorted his millions of supporters to fight to implement progressive policies to transform America, saying the general election was more than about beating Donald Trump. In a speech lasting more than an hour, the 74-year-old from Vermont, who challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination from the left, failed to mention the victorious secretary of state even once. Instead, he insisted that the popularity […]

Continue Reading →

Vermont protesters repeatedly disrupt Trump rally

About 20 protesters interrupted a Donald Trump rally in Burlington, Vermont several times on Thursday (January 7), to boos from supporters of the U.S. Republican presidential candidate inside a theater and cheers from fellow protesters outside. Trump said he expected to encounter opposition in Vermont as his campaign stopped at the home town of Democratic rival Bernie Sanders. “It was interesting, because when we said that we were going to come up here, a lot […]

Continue Reading →