Stephanie Olen

Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help? Iran is suffering huge water shortages. Expert believe there are changes that could help.

Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
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CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year.
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...

Flows of carbon in giga tonnes carbon per year between atmosphere, ocean and land

New assessment reported @nature.com finds weaker land carbon sink but stronger ocean sink than previously thought with #climate change and deforestation stifling how much carbon the continents can take up, leaving more behind to raise atmospheric CO2 levels:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

World ‘very likely’ to exceed 1.5C climate goal in next decade: UN Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries 'have landed off target' on climate goals multiple times, the UN warns.

Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species

In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table

Or access via Readcube: rdcu.be/eI2DZ

Strategizing renewable energy transitions to preserve sediment transport integrity - Nature Sustainability Hydropower is a clean energy source but dams trap river sediment, decreasing delivery downstream and to coastlines. In the Mekong River Basin, replacing some hydropower dams with solar, wind and energy storage facilities could maintain energy supply while reducing impact on sediment transport.

Hydropower is an important clean energy source, but dams trap river sediment with downstream impacts, including to coastlines. Integrating solar, wind, and energy storage facilities can maintain energy supply while maintaining downstream sediment transport.
Free on readcube: rdcu.be/eI2zQ

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

Simplexifying sustainability Nature Sustainability - How can sustainability science avoid paralysis in the face of complexity and ensure it catalyses meaningful action? The key lies in practising the science and art of...

I was privileged to work with Bassel Daher on a new World View that's just out. In it, Bassel presents a path towards elegant and actionable solutions to the increasingly complex sustainability issues we face today.

Read the World View here: rdcu.be/eIQaQ

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Climate Change - Shanghai (CN) /Beijing/New York job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12845336 Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Nature Climate Change) Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Beijing, New York, New Jersey - hy...

🚨 We are hiring - Nature Climate Change is recruiting for a full time editor to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a PhD trained researcher to move into editorial. Applications close 23 October
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Perspectives on climate change in South Asia - Nature Climate Change Home to roughly a quarter of the world’s population, South Asia is a hotspot for global warming impacts. In this Viewpoint, nine researchers from South Asia discuss the progress made in understanding and responding to climate change in the region.

Viewpoint: Nine researchers from South Asia, a hotspot for global warming impacts, discuss the progress made in understanding and responding to climate change in the region
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

We've Turned the Planet Into A Gigantic Toxic Chemical Spill — With Serious Implications for Global Health We're exposed to literally THOUSANDS of chemicals — carcinogens, neurotoxins, and endocrine-disrupting agents — that our ancestors just 100 years ago would've never encountered. This is ... not good.

This was previously behind a paywall -- it's now accessible to everyone. Worth reading, I think: the fact is that _it's almost impossible to go anywhere on Earth these days and NOT GET POISONED_. The planet is one massive toxic chemical spill zone. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/its-a-wond...

Fish trawling and climate perturbations threaten the largest marine mercury sink - Nature Sustainability Continental shelves have become a substantial sink of anthropogenic mercury since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. However, human activities and climate-related processes can remobilize mercury-bearing sediment, potentially transforming this mercury sink into a marine source.

Since the industrial revolution, continental shelves have become a major sink for anthropogenic mercury. How do bottom trawling fisheries and dredging impact this Hg sink?

Read more to find out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Geoscience in Action graphic

Geoscientists, with their deep understanding of climate systems, hazards, and all of Earth’s processes, have the expertise to contribute substantially to solutions for many of society’s greatest challenges. ⚒️

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/omjKx88

#GlobalGoalsWeek #SDGs #UNGA80 #Geology #Geoscience

Inspired by this + fossil giant Eni's fusion investments to update my 'greenwashing habitable zone' conceptualisation of what techs seem to lend themselves to being the most useful for bullshitty climate delay

Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut

Top right = The Altman Expanse

The New Gerrymander: Flood Maps | The Commons Magazine Across the United States, floodplain maps are changed every day, sometimes in ways that could hide true flood risk and put people in danger.

Flood risk lines are mapped to keep us safe. What happens when they can be bought? Dr. Beth Tellman tells it like it is. nelson.wisc.edu/the-commons/...

Our September issue is live! Read about water complexities, timber cities, soil degradation, agroforestry, PV depoyment in open pit mines, and more:
www.nature.com/natsustain/v...

I know it's not surprising, but seeing this at the end of a day of reading climate change and sustainability science made me cry at my desk.

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.

🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

The last time I was in the US I saw hard Mountain Dew and knew instantly that we were in the final throes of American Greatness before the whole thing collapses spectacularly under its own weight. XD

Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria

Failing to address climate change is very expensive.

Addressing methane emission feedbacks from global wetlands - Nature Sustainability Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a large decadal-scale impact on climate change. Accounting for climate and ecological feedback loops can help mitigate its impact.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a large decade-scale impact on climate change. Accounting for climate and ecological feedback loops can help mitigate its impact.

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heavy metal imprints in Antarctic snow from research and tourism - Nature Sustainability Antarctica is increasingly popular as a site for tourism and scientific research. The growth of marine traffic and the presence of major research stations have increased the anthropogenic deposition of heavy metals into this fragile ecosystem.

Antarctica is increasingly popular as a site for tourism and scientific research. A paper in Nature Sustainability reports that the growth of marine traffic and the presence of major research stations have increased the anthropogenic deposition of heavy metals into this ecosystem. 🔒

NASA’s Earth-observing satellites are crucial — commercial missions cannot replace them Private companies can track many changes on Earth from space, but both public and commercial satellite missions are needed to understand and protect the environment.

Danielle Wood discusses in a World View article for Nature how private companies can track many changes on Earth from space, but both public and commercial satellite missions are needed to understand and protect the environment. go.nature.com/4lZgyFr 🔭 🧪

One more side effect of GHG emissions that threatens the sustainability of our everyday lives.

Industrial-scale sustainable rare earth mining enabled by electrokinetics - Nature Sustainability Greener mining technologies for rare earth elements (REEs) extraction are of vital importance to creating a sustainable REEs supply. Here the authors achieve industrial-scale REEs mining with reduced ...

Conventional mining of rare earth elements (REEs) is largely unsustainable. Here Zhu and co-authors show how a greener and selective method to extract REEs from ores can be successfully scaled up to enable a more sustainable path to REEs mining.

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Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises - Nature Sustainability Efforts to address the water challenges that societies face are hindered by a lack of funding and ineffective implementation, as well as poor understanding of the causes. Adopting a beyond growth fram...

Really excited to share this piece just out at Nature Sustainability in which experts discuss how to reframe responses to the world’s water crises through a ‘beyond growth’ framing focused on fostering place-based and justice-principled institutional changes.

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