Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Tanya O'Garra 👇 Agroecology benefits people and planet www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eHw8V

This spring @pewresearch.org asked people if they were happy with how democracy is working in their country. In the US, just 37% were satisfied. Countries with higher #s: Sweden 75% India 74% Indonesia 66% Australia 61% Germany 61% Canada 60% Mexico 51% UK 48% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

US women aged 20-24 plan to have fewer children than in the past 2002: 2.4 children 2012: 2.3 children 2023: 1.5 children https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/18/us-adults-in-their-20s-and-30s-plan-to-have-fewer-children-than-in-the-past/

Growth of renewable energy heralds the rise of supercables that create a new energy ties between regions on.ft.com/3V9XtW6 "Developers are making plans to connect Canada to the UK, Morocco to Europe, and Australia to Singapore, with cables stretching across land and the seabed"

‘Something is working’: UN climate chief optimistic about green transition #Climate

A Compact Solution for Japan’s Narrow Streets “The mibot, standing under 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) tall, is designed to navigate Japan’s narrow streets, which larger vehicles struggle to traverse.” “Cars are simply too big.” Cities need a lot more people moving using a lot less space. Simple as that.

Another part of the story of PFAS, denial, and lack of concern for wellbeing of people or nature www.propublica.org/article/3m-f...

Diet changes in food futures improve Swedish environmental and health outcomes Mazac+ doi.org/10.1038/s432... quantified diets for four Swedish Food Futures reduced impacts by 30% vs. today alternative food system transformations can reducing food impact while being healthier #MistraFoodFutures

a list of financial, technical, and governance capabilities that state-run financing institutions need to promote sustainability from Debt-to-equity swaps to Revolving loan fund deployment from US NGO Center for Public Enterprise publicenterprise.org/financial-fu...

The ecology of money: How systemic interactions can grow (or block) the growth of sustainable finance www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res... suggests three shifts: • Bring science into finance • Make corporate sustainability reporting count • See the bigger picture

Outlook: Socio-Ecological Imaginations Hajer + Oomen doi.org/10.1093/9780... "academic attention...to understand what is happening, but also to find socioecological images of the future that can capture the cultural imagination."

"Hajer and Oomen’s groundbreaking book shows us how we can move from a politics of captured futures to one of captivating futures — positive visions of a thriving planet for all that can capture our collective imagination." - Macnaghten review of book "Captured Futures" doi.org/10.1038/d415...

CRISES AVERTED. How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural-Demographic Crises Hoyer+ doi.org/10.21237/C7c...

Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... “The true costs of extreme weather surface slowly because these events affect lives and livelihoods through a wide range of channels”- Usman, economist & 1st author of paper

Going NUTS: The regional impact of extreme climate events over the medium term Usman+ doi.org/10.1016/j.eu... analyzing impacts of extreme climate events on the regional economy, labour productivity, investment and population across EU regions shows immediate + persistent declines

When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bridging insights from the economics, finance, and accounting literatures to synthesize knowledge about the design and implementation of bank regulation and identifying areas where more work is needed, from Nina Boyarchenko, Kinda Cheryl Hachem, and Anya V. Kley... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34241

📣 Upcoming panel discussion on measuring resilience across research fields and scales 🌱 This panel brings together experts to examine how resilience can be measured across research fields and scales. 🗓️ 22 September 2025 🕑 09:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 AEST 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/y5t3x32m

Measuring flood underinsurance in the USA Amornsiripanitch+ doi.org/10.1038/s415... "Underinsurance...totals US$15.7 billion annually. Among at-risk households, 88% are underinsured ...At least 70% of at-risk households would benefit from purchasing flood insurance, even as prevailing prices rise"

European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change Ceglar+ doi.org/10.1038/s432... in Euro area "72% of the analysed companies" have a high dependence of ES + "100 [banks] are responsible for 87% of the total biodiversity footprint" of banks

Investor "...are keen to keep their exposure to US stocks amid an AI boom but are less willing to hold the dollar risk." on.ft.com/3ViEkRZ

Sharing an upcoming Panel Discussion on "Measuring Resilience Across Fields and Scales", organised as part of a @socses.bsky.social Thematic Stream. 📅 22 September 2025 ⏰ 9 am CEST / 5 pm AEST 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: anu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Excited to see @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social tomorrow to learn about the most impactful climate actions! Join the webinar 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Using experimental and modelling evidence, this study reveals that small coral populations face fertilization failure due to Allee effects. The findings identify critical population thresholds needed to maintain reproductive success 🪸🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Dr. Frida Bengtsson orcid.org/0000-0003-49... newest Sustainability Science PhD @sthlmresilience.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

EMBER report on 'The Electrotech Revolution' "how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy" ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Frida Bengtsson defending her PhD in sustainability science - Charting for Change on collective action for sustainable industrial fisheries @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

"Exved ... operates as an offshore crypto laundering network. By using agent-based payment schemes, it enables Russian clients to move money abroad through offshore proxies, leaving no crypto footprint in Russian banking records." cryptolaundromat.ti-russia.org

‘Mobilizing Finance for Biodiversity’ outlines options to strengthen private finance sector contributions to national biodiversity strategies and action plans (#NBSAPs). Read more on our blog: tinyurl.com/y6pm4e7s Download the full report here: tinyurl.com/39yns2pz

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package. Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code. Read online: tmap.geocompx.org #rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NYC — capturing every word on the street

We spoke to scientists who left the USA during Trump's first term. Here is their advice go.nature.com/4m6QSqh

Feeding Profit: How food environments are failing children UNICEF www.unicef.org/reports/feed... "unhealthy food environments are driving nutrient-poor, unhealthy diets & a surge in overweight & obesity among children & adolescents, even in countries still grappling with child undernutrition"

For the First Time, More Children Are Obese Than Underweight www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Canada's Evolving Geographical Names interactive website Place names change due to new uses for a place physical changes to the landscape restoration of Indigenous names administrative restructuring spelling corrections & evolving societal perspectives maps.canada.ca/stories/stor...

Quotes get shortened (fine), but the point is that cities, governments, NGOs, individuals - ALL -must move from shock, concern, and worry to action that radically scales up adaptation and resilience investments to be better prepared for extreme rainfall and flooding www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/s...

"The top US markets regulator has threatened to ban overseas companies from using accounting rules from the International Financial Reporting Standards if its rulemakers continue to pursue sustainability and climate issues" on.ft.com/3VIvIUJ IFRS is used in EU and is the most widely used standard

A technical report on the impacts of federal policies since January 20, 2025 on Ecology, evolution and marine science: Summer 2025 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025... "first systematic evaluation of how policy changes have disrupted scientific work"

Identifying and closing gaps in corporate reporting of ocean impacts Jouffray+ doi.org/10.1038/s418... "Most companies focus narrowly on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, with limited attention to more ocean-specific impacts, for which fewer than 25% of firms have metrics and targets. "

We identified 6 narratives that vary in how French & Dutch 🐄 farmers conceptualise #biodiversity, perceive and value interactions between farming & biodiversity, & define problems & solutions in relation to biodiversity Paper is led by V. Oostvogels 👉 doi.org/10.1002/pan3... #dairy #NFF #pluralism

Dutch cargo ship MV Thamesborg runs aground in Canadian Arctic NW passage www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... tracking www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/... background: Environmental impacts of Arctic shipping activities: A review Qi+ doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

Yesterday, I was riding my bike when I came across this "die-in" protest, a block from our #Montreal apartment. Height of rush hour; police held back vehicular traffic. For context, a 31-year-old woman on a bike was killed by the driver of a truck on Sunday morning. (la version française suit) 🧵

Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives Raymond+ doi.org/10.1007/s116... "three distinct pathways for implementing EU policy objectives for the land system"

Here is the starter pack you have all been waiting for: IPCC AR7 Scientists (the scientists that will write the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the next few years) Thanks @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack...

"Slowing GDP growth, a structural shift away from heavy industry, and more proactive policies on air pollution & clean energy have caused China's coal use to peak" www.nature.com/articles/nge... That was written in 2016. Coal has grown strongly since then. 1/

US and EU Agree on Trade Framework Agreement – Implications for ESG/CSR Compliance corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/09/07/u... "the Framework Agreement is likely to be used as an additional justification by the pro-simplification camp within the EU for trimming ESG/CSR-related compliance requirements."

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions Hatfield+ doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... A: Not #1 but in Top 3-5 "available evidence suggests that the current extinction rate is approaching or even surpassing that seen across earlier Cenozoic events"

“A UK government department's three-month trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up some tasks yet making others slower due to lower quality outputs.” www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

New paper: The Network Structure of Environmental Justice Social Movements. The effectiveness of EJ as a social movement depends on building collaboration networks. This paper identifies some of the key drivers of EJ network formation. I really like this one! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....