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Kimberly Nicholas

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Lund
As seen in: LinkedIn, Nature, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News UK, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, La Nación (Argentina), PLOS and
Covers:  climate, environment, sustainability, science
Climate scientist @lunduniversity Bestselling author, bit.ly/3fcf2y Evidence-based climate action advice: wecanfixit.substack.com

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Kimberly Nicholas’s Biography

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Dr. Kimberly Nicholas is Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund, Sweden’s highest-ranked university.

She is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World (Putnam/Penguin Random House, March 2021), and writes for publications including Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist, Decanter, and Carbon Brief. She publishes a monthly climate newsletter on linking facts, feelings, and actions for climate, We Can Fix It.

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Kimberly Nicholas’s Journalist Portfolio

My Father Was Sick, But It's My Home That's Dying

My Father Was Sick, But It's My Home That's Dying

The climate emergency is not the problem of future generations. It is here for us, for me, for you, right her…

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Scientists need to face both facts and feelings when dealing with the climate crisis | Kimberly N...

Scientists need to face both facts and feelings when dealing with the climate crisis | Kimberly N...

I was taught to use my head, not my heart. But acknowledging sadness at what is lost can help us safeguard th…

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The 5 roles you may have to affect climate change

The 5 roles you may have to affect climate change

We are often encouraged as individuals to reduce our personal impact on the climate, but the truth is some pe…

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Wine lover: The climate needs you! - Decanter

Wine lover: The climate needs you! - Decanter

Kimberly Nicholas PhD (@KA_Nicholas ) is a sustainability scientist at Lund University, and author of Under t…

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Experts: Why does 'climate justice' matter?

Experts: Why does 'climate justice' matter?

The term " climate justice " captures the various ways in which global warming impacts people differently and…

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Debunking climate guilt in time for the holidays!

Debunking climate guilt in time for the holidays!

Hi friends, welcome to your last newsletter of 2021! Thank you for being on this journey together. I launched…

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Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -42:31 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Emily and Asy of the Tempestry Project share how they turn climate data into something you can knit, hold and hang on a wall. What started as a joke after the 2017 US presidential inauguration, worried that government climate data might disappear, grew into a global project: handcrafted tapestries that turn local temperature records into physical, wearable art.
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Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -43:21 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Caroline Merrell, senior director of sustainable winemaking at Jackson Family Wines, shares how her company set a science-based climate target, the challenges of reducing emissions in a growing business, and the actions working now such as using less glass in wine bottles, installing solar on farms, and looking at supply chain emissions.
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Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -42:43 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. How does flying contribute to climate change? For many people concerned about the climate, how much we fly is a big dilemma and a challenge! Flying burns a LOT of fossil fuels, and is the single biggest source of climate pollution for most frequent flyers. Family lives abroad, work demands travel, and social pressure pushes the other way.
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How is social media changing news?

Empowering and democratizing contributors, but also destroying our attention capacity

Who do you wish followed you?

Florence Welch (Greta Thunberg already does!)

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Yes, I wrote for The Sunburned Zebra about a Blur/Pulp concert at the Fillmore (!), and a review of Train Town, the scale railway in Sonoma.