Zachary Evans

Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground - but anglers and scientists are racing to save them.

Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too.

As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground — but dedicated anglers and scientists are racing to save them.

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#Trout #Culture #Fish #NC #Virginia #VA

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Conservative Judges Love to Tell a Certain Story About American History. It’s Dead Wrong. The glaring omissions in originalists’ version of the country’s founding document.

This week on Amicus: A fascinating conversation about the meaning of the Constitution as understood by Native nations in 1789—and whether squeezing their perspectives into an “originalist” framework risks legitimizing the government-led atrocities that followed. slate.com/podcasts/ami...

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Good luck to all the bar exam takers this week.

Visualize your own success. Rest tonight. Tomorrow: own that damned thing and never look back.

Flash Floods and Climate Policy As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.

I wrote about how Trump is dismantling the country's disaster forecasting infrastructure. But this isn't going to stop disasters from piling up -- quite the contrary.

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmo...

NEW: Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

The administration has canceled a deal, signed under President Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

With @opb.org

U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom

Exclusive: Until it gets more clarity on new grant language, Williams College won’t accept more National Institutes of Health or National Science Foundation funding for research on its campus.

Can Offshore Wind Survive the Tax Credit Purge? Empire Wind has been spared — but it may be one of the last of its kind in the U.S.

What happens to the offshore wind industry without tax credits?

“The tax credits knock off about a quarter of the price,” reports @emilypont.bsky.social. “Without them, buyers will be back on the hook.”

Read the full story below.

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Endangered species & the laws protecting them are under the gravest threats of our lifetimes. Come join a lively, in-person panel with Gotham Whale, Gotham Bat Conservancy & NYC Plover Project to hear about the endangered species in our city, and how you can help them.

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...

NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States.

Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab.

Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.

My story for @propublica.org

Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffalo (This story was published in partnership with The Associated Press.) In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone want to redefine how we see buffalo.

Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffalo.

"Bringing the buffalo back is about our relationship with them, not domination over them."

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#Wyoming #Indigenous #Buffalo #Animals #Climate #Tribe #Environment

Federal funding freeze halts key infrastructure projects in tribal communities Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

Republicans Asked For an Offshore Wind Exposé. They Got a Letdown Instead. “NOAA Fisheries does not anticipate any death or serious injury to whales from offshore wind related actions.”

A new Government Accountability Office report on offshore wind is "far from the smoking gun Republicans were looking for," @emilypont.bsky.social reports.

"As for whales, it basically shrugs."

File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS.

Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.

A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world's energy future To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal.

A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future.

To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal.

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#Lithium #Cobalt #Mining #EV #Batteries

Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life.

Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source.

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#Lithium #Chile #Mining #Environment #GreenSky

Just asked my local leaders in Albany, NY to protect monarch butterflies and pollinators 🦋

You can send a message to your city or town’s leaders in less than 30 seconds with this @nationalwildlife.bsky.social link 👉 support.nwf.org/page/80450/a...

There's no rulebook for deep-sea mining. Companies want to push forward anyway Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, companies are telling regulators they plan to move ahead, whether or not rul...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, companies are telling regulators they plan to move ahead, whether or not rules are in place.

Did you know that Piping Plovers have been found in 35 states?! Wow. It’s true Piping Plovers breed or winter across many parts of the Lower 48!

How cool is that?

Protecting a fragile species like plovers — where they nest AND winter — is important work for us all!

IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...

Back when I was presenting my Fulbright research on “tax weapons”—the use of tax policy to target vulnerable minorities—I got so much pushback. One Prof even called my work “anti-tax”. But tax administration is a longstanding tool for political targeting, including nominally universal taxes.

Critical Race Theory scholars have shone a spotlight on the legal underpinnings of imperial power and violence in numerous topics, including foreign policy. Absent from this critical scholarship is an analysis of United States interference in South American affairs. In centering the violent histories of dispossession and enslavement, I propose a rethinking of modern U.S.-Chile relations, with a particular eye to the role of the U.S. in the rise and brutal regime of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. As an imperial power, the U.S. exported and embedded racial violence in Chilean society. The effects of this practice are most evident in the racial character of state terror and economic oppression perpetrated by Pinochet against the Chilean people. With the recent failure of Chile’s constitutional reform referenda and reignited debates over the U.S. role in geopolitical affairs, this article applies an analysis of history and the law to illuminate how the specter of racial violence pervades society and law in the U.S. and Chile. I conclude with a call for a reparative reset, proposing declassification of U.S. interference in Chile and a binational search for truth and reconciliation.

Here's the abstract in case you're interested!

I fell in love with legal history in Prof. Nina Farnia's courses, where this law review article took shape. And Prof. Anthony Farley's guidance throughout an independent study was essential to evolving my concept and fine-tuning my argument.

#lawreview #legalhistory #democracy #chile #pinochet

Very proud to have my article on the lasting influence of US empire-building in Chile published in the @penncareylaw.bsky.social Journal of Law & Social Change. The student editors were a joy to work with & much appreciation to @albanylaw.bsky.social profs! scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlasc/vol28/...

A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital t...

From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.

How the Klamath Dams Came Down Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

How the Klamath Dams Came Down.

Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history.

This is their story.

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#Oregon #Tribe #Indigenous #CA #California #KlamathDam

We mourn the passing of a true fighter for endangered species & our public lands. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, we thank you for advocacy on behalf of wildlife across our country. You will be deeply missed.

Minks, beavers and 60 species of fish tell a story of recovery in the Chicago River Ahead of dyeing the river green for St. Patrick’s Day, we look back at what has made the river healthy again since its polluted “Bubbly Creek” days.

Listen: Since the Clean Water Act, biodiversity in the Chicago River has increased, and there are now over 60 species of fish.. Those species are spawning, and their offspring are also doing well, says Austin Happel, research biologist at the Shedd Aquarium. www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social

Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter since 2000 Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent since 2000.

Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent since 2000.

It’s #worldwildlifeday! & a reminder that beach-nesting shorebirds are New Yorkers too! We are so lucky to have Least & Common Terns, Piping Plovers, American Oystercatchers, & Black Skimmers nest on our city’s beaches! Be a shorebird steward! Our next info session is 3/13. Sign up @ link in bio.