Evan Walker
@ecologicalev.bsky.social
Environmental conservation & sustainability at WWF 🐼. Enjoyer of books, music, movies, and skateboarding, often in Ohio
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The Mojave Desert isn’t barren—it’s alive. 🌱
A rare plant, the threecorner milkvetch, jumped from 12 plants to 93 after a Nevada solar project used a gentler construction method that protected desert seed banks. Newest collab with @grist.org
#SolarEnergy #Biodiversity #Ecovoltaics
A rare plant, the threecorner milkvetch, jumped from 12 plants to 93 after a Nevada solar project used a gentler construction method that protected desert seed banks. Newest collab with @grist.org
#SolarEnergy #Biodiversity #Ecovoltaics
Study: NV solar farm becomes a haven for rare plants
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February 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The Mojave Desert isn’t barren—it’s alive. 🌱
A rare plant, the threecorner milkvetch, jumped from 12 plants to 93 after a Nevada solar project used a gentler construction method that protected desert seed banks. Newest collab with @grist.org
#SolarEnergy #Biodiversity #Ecovoltaics
A rare plant, the threecorner milkvetch, jumped from 12 plants to 93 after a Nevada solar project used a gentler construction method that protected desert seed banks. Newest collab with @grist.org
#SolarEnergy #Biodiversity #Ecovoltaics
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The EPA is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
Trump's EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases, setting up a legal fight
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
n.pr
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The EPA is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
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What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future
What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future
Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on how ice coverage has shifted since 1897. Researchers are already using it to study a declining fish species.
dlvr.it
February 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future
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My latest dispatch from Planet Ficus: A reader’s childhood memory led me to an unexpected link between folklore, Indigenous naming practices and a microscopic enigma.🧪🌏
planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...
planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...
Mysterious Little Beings Really Do Live In Hawaiian Fig Trees
The menehune of legend may not live in fig trees — but something just as elusive and enigmatic does.
planetficus.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
My latest dispatch from Planet Ficus: A reader’s childhood memory led me to an unexpected link between folklore, Indigenous naming practices and a microscopic enigma.🧪🌏
planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...
planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...
“From Dec. 1 last year to Jan. 15, temperatures were up to 15 degrees above normal in the Rockies, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada. Colorado is having its warmest winter since 1895.”
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/s...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/s...
Snow Drought in the West Reaches Record Levels
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:33 AM
“From Dec. 1 last year to Jan. 15, temperatures were up to 15 degrees above normal in the Rockies, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada. Colorado is having its warmest winter since 1895.”
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As near-freezing temperatures reached southern Florida, cold-stunned iguanas dropped from the trees, unable to handle the chill.
See the images: theatln.tc/ULeQ3WgV
See the images: theatln.tc/ULeQ3WgV
February 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
As near-freezing temperatures reached southern Florida, cold-stunned iguanas dropped from the trees, unable to handle the chill.
See the images: theatln.tc/ULeQ3WgV
See the images: theatln.tc/ULeQ3WgV
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Berkshire Hathaway's PacifiCorp is asking an appeals court to throw out a 2023 jury verdict in a wildfire class-action case that has exposed the company to billions of dollars in losses.
Berkshire Utility Presses Wildfire Appeal With Billions at Stake
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp is asking an appeals court to throw out a 2023 jury verdict in a wildfire class-action case that has exposed the company to billions of dollars in losses.
bloom.bg
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Berkshire Hathaway's PacifiCorp is asking an appeals court to throw out a 2023 jury verdict in a wildfire class-action case that has exposed the company to billions of dollars in losses.
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Household rat poisons found to be ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals. So why aren’t they banned? 🌎
theconversation.com/household-ra...
theconversation.com/household-ra...
Household rat poisons found to be ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals. So why aren’t they banned?
Native predators like owls and goannas are dying from eating poisoned rats and mice. Wildlife experts are shocked the government won’t ban these toxic compounds.
theconversation.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Household rat poisons found to be ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals. So why aren’t they banned? 🌎
theconversation.com/household-ra...
theconversation.com/household-ra...
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Gift article: "A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming." 🌎🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gift article: "A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming." 🌎🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Washington is seeking to speed up construction of renewable energy projects through a series of actions after a ProPublica and @opb.org investigation showed the state ranks dead last in the country for green energy growth.
Our Reporting Showed Washington Ranks Last in Green Energy Growth. Now the State Is Working to Speed It Up.
The state’s departing commerce director said there’s added urgency to get the projects done after an Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica investigation showed states like Iowa and Texas have made...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Washington is seeking to speed up construction of renewable energy projects through a series of actions after a ProPublica and @opb.org investigation showed the state ranks dead last in the country for green energy growth.
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i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 PM
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
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PBS @pbsnews.org Lesson: What researchers are learning as they drill into Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier'
Ask students: What could studying the glacier tell us about climate change?
w/ @milesobrien.com https://loom.ly/_PeOYAQ
Ask students: What could studying the glacier tell us about climate change?
w/ @milesobrien.com https://loom.ly/_PeOYAQ
What researchers are learning as they drill into Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier'
Miles O'Brien reports on the work to drill into the ice to understand the impact of climate change
www.pbs.org
January 31, 2026 at 2:28 AM
PBS @pbsnews.org Lesson: What researchers are learning as they drill into Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier'
Ask students: What could studying the glacier tell us about climate change?
w/ @milesobrien.com https://loom.ly/_PeOYAQ
Ask students: What could studying the glacier tell us about climate change?
w/ @milesobrien.com https://loom.ly/_PeOYAQ
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A sign at California's Muir Woods National Monument explaining that redwoods soak up planet-warming greenhouse gases has been removed by the Trump administration. One of many ways the National Park Service is now silencing science and history: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...
How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:26 AM
A sign at California's Muir Woods National Monument explaining that redwoods soak up planet-warming greenhouse gases has been removed by the Trump administration. One of many ways the National Park Service is now silencing science and history: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...
“Only about half of our water use is being supported by that natural replenishment, which means the other half requires us to take more and more water out of our reservoirs, take more and more water out of the groundwater aquifers.”
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Water overconsumption is threatening the Rio Grande, study finds
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Rio Grande-Bravo basin, which spans from Colorado through New Mexico, Texas, and into Mexico, is experiencing a “severe water crisis” that is being fueled b…
www.krqe.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:13 PM
“Only about half of our water use is being supported by that natural replenishment, which means the other half requires us to take more and more water out of our reservoirs, take more and more water out of the groundwater aquifers.”
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🌎 www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
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Record heat is the new normal, says WWF's @stephanieroe.bsky.social, as 2025 ranks among the three hottest years ever. The good news? Climate solutions are breaking records too. Rapid emissions cuts are possible. More here: t.co/Ph4h3mU6i8
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Record heat is the new normal, says WWF's @stephanieroe.bsky.social, as 2025 ranks among the three hottest years ever. The good news? Climate solutions are breaking records too. Rapid emissions cuts are possible. More here: t.co/Ph4h3mU6i8
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"I look at the resilience of the American scientific enterprise, of the scientists in that enterprise, the graduate students and postdocs, and I see it working its way up into the legislation," says @aaas.org CEO Sudip Parikh.
One Year Into Trump’s Term, Where Does Science Funding Stand?
The CEO of AAAS is cautiously optimistic about federal funding for science, even as uncertainty makes research challenging.
buff.ly
January 19, 2026 at 12:37 AM
"I look at the resilience of the American scientific enterprise, of the scientists in that enterprise, the graduate students and postdocs, and I see it working its way up into the legislation," says @aaas.org CEO Sudip Parikh.
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Fascinating analysis of eBird checklists to determine what draws visitors to the birdiest countries in the world. www.audubon.org/magazine/do-...
Do Nations With the Most Birds Attract the Most Bird Tourists?
Bird-rich Colombia has seen explosive bird tourism growth, according to a new study that sifted through eBird data. But not all tropical nations are fulfilling their bird tourism potential.
www.audubon.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Fascinating analysis of eBird checklists to determine what draws visitors to the birdiest countries in the world. www.audubon.org/magazine/do-...
“Encouraging elephants to migrate can help relieve overpopulation in some areas, but any corridor invariably intersects with human communities, making it both vital ecological infrastructure and a social challenge.”
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Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population
Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los ...
news.mongabay.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
“Encouraging elephants to migrate can help relieve overpopulation in some areas, but any corridor invariably intersects with human communities, making it both vital ecological infrastructure and a social challenge.”
🌎 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corr...
🌎 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corr...
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Having diverse trees in playgrounds helps young children feel good https://relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/12/10/plain-language-summary-having-diverse-trees-in-playgrounds-helps-young-children-feel-good/
Read the full paper here https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70227
Read the full paper here https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70227
relationalthinkingblog.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Having diverse trees in playgrounds helps young children feel good https://relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/12/10/plain-language-summary-having-diverse-trees-in-playgrounds-helps-young-children-feel-good/
Read the full paper here https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70227
Read the full paper here https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70227
“major changes to rivers, caused by hydropower dams, could destabilize vulnerable floodplain forests, increasing the probability of large-scale changes in vegetation that would undermine the forest’s ability to retain carbon – or even to remain forest” - @jjopperman.bsky.social
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The Amazon: Both Forest And River Are Critical To Climate Solutions
The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution...
www.forbes.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
“major changes to rivers, caused by hydropower dams, could destabilize vulnerable floodplain forests, increasing the probability of large-scale changes in vegetation that would undermine the forest’s ability to retain carbon – or even to remain forest” - @jjopperman.bsky.social
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The more I've learned about #airpollution, the madder I've gotten about the gap between what researchers know and what most people--including most #health care workers--know.
healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/01... 🧪🌎
#publichealth #medicine
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#publichealth #medicine
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The more I've learned about #airpollution, the madder I've gotten about the gap between what researchers know and what most people--including most #health care workers--know.
healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/01... 🧪🌎
#publichealth #medicine
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#publichealth #medicine
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This article strikes a chord with me. With mobile laser scanners and GNSS receivers I can now collect as much data in a few days as used to take weeks. Great! Except that's less time spent in the forest really looking at the trees. 🧪🌏🌲🌳 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:16 PM
This article strikes a chord with me. With mobile laser scanners and GNSS receivers I can now collect as much data in a few days as used to take weeks. Great! Except that's less time spent in the forest really looking at the trees. 🧪🌏🌲🌳 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“As urban centers around the globe rethink their futures, one message is clear: if you want happier people, give them space to ride safely.” momentummag.com/the-happiest...
The Happiest Cities in the World are Also the Most Bicycle Friendly
The 2025 Happy City Index is in and the world's happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike.
momentummag.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:18 AM
“As urban centers around the globe rethink their futures, one message is clear: if you want happier people, give them space to ride safely.” momentummag.com/the-happiest...