Stephanie Olen
@soslavsk.bsky.social
Earth and climate science editor at Nature Sustainability.
Geomorphologist, nature enthusiast, hobby painter, queer nerd, urban gardener, cyclist, 🇺🇸 in 🇩🇪/Berlin. Opinions my own. She/her.
Geomorphologist, nature enthusiast, hobby painter, queer nerd, urban gardener, cyclist, 🇺🇸 in 🇩🇪/Berlin. Opinions my own. She/her.
Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
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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.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
theconversation.com/irans-capita...
theconversation.com/irans-capita...
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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...
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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...
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...
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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...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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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
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
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.
www.aljazeera.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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
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
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
Free on readcube: rdcu.be/eI2zQ
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.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
Free on readcube: rdcu.be/eI2zQ
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I may have found my defining quote.
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I may have found my defining quote.
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
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
Read the World View here: rdcu.be/eIQaQ
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...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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
Read the World View here: rdcu.be/eIQaQ
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🚨 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...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🚨 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...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
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September 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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!
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!
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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!
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!
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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...
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.
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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...
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...
Read more to find out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
www.nature.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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...
Read more to find out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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...
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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...
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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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
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#GlobalGoalsWeek #SDGs #UNGA80 #Geology #Geoscience
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/omjKx88
#GlobalGoalsWeek #SDGs #UNGA80 #Geology #Geoscience
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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
Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut
Top right = The Altman Expanse
September 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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
Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut
Top right = The Altman Expanse
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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/...
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.
nelson.wisc.edu
September 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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...
www.nature.com/natsustain/v...
September 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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...
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
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
September 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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.
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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
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US
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Failing to address climate change is very expensive.
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
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Failing to address climate change is very expensive.
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...
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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...
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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. 🔒
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.
go.nature.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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. 🔒
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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 🔭 🧪
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.
go.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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 🔭 🧪