On April 10th, more than 120 high school students from across northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine gathered at the Highland Center for the Appalachian Mountain Club’s inaugural Youth Climate Summit. The event included a…
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Dispatches from the AMC 150 Relay: One Month In
I have a very normal job… I am following the volunteers of AMC’s 150th Anniversary Relay as they hike, bike, and paddle their way from Virginia to Maine, a journey that is over 2,000 miles....
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Update February 13, 2026 — Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized its decision to revoke the endangerment finding, the scientific and common-sense determination that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environment. Without it,…
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This summer, members of AMC’s research team are out in the field: catching clouds on the top of Mt. Washington, counting pollinators in the alpine zone, and measuring dissolved organic carbon in mountain lakes. Why…
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By now you’ve heard the news: Federal funding frozen or retracted. Project stoppages, staff reductions, and legislative rollbacks. These actions threaten public lands, scientific research, recreation, and the long-term health of the environment in our region. …
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Winters in our region from Maine to Virginia have changed. We’ve lost three weeks of winter weather and snow cover in the Northeast over the last 100 years. Massachusetts has lost 27 days of snow…
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Have you heard the term 30×30? As time ticks on toward the benchmark year of 2030, here’s what you need to know about the international movement to mitigate climate change and biodiversity decline, and AMC’s…
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We need to talk about a major source of anxiety for many in our community: climate change. Climate change impacts our health, from the spread of diseases to our physical health to our food sources—not…
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I’m standing on a 2,000-yard stretch of churned-up earth, right off the road. Sunlight filters down through the trees with just-starting-to-change color leaves, and busily working people in hard hats surround me, as well as…
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