# @natgeosociety on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdmYmhFnVUt
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T18:31:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic Society (@natgeosociety) — https://gondola.cc/natgeosociety

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“What does it mean to carry life in a world on fire? My project, Natura, follows women across four continents who are navigating what it means to be a parent — or not — in a warming world.” — #NatGeoExplorer nicholesobecki

“The science of heat and pregnancy is new. The reckoning isn’t. Through Natura I’m documenting the quiet, often unspoken ways women — in Iraq’s dying marshlands, rural America’s birthing rooms, Germany’s occupied forests and Palau’s heat-altered waters — are making decisions around pregnancy and parenthood, and the realities of raising families in places already being reshaped by climate change. Swipe through to read some of the stories of the women and families I’ve met through Natura. To mother, these women suggest, is not only to bear life, but to defend it.” 

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Sobecki’s work is supported through the Society’s Global Storytellers Fund, a collaboration with theclimatepledge to illuminate climate resilience and solutions around the globe. 

Photo of Alexandra Narváez.

“This is Fatima Sabah Thamer outside her home in the Al-Chibayish marshes, Iraq. Here, geese and buffalo have shaped daily life since the first Mesopotamian cities rose along these waterways six thousand years ago. Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources now estimates that 70% of the marshes are devoid of water.” — #NatGeoExplorer nicholesobecki

“I spent time with Kamila Mahdi Hutiehut and two of her children as they returned from gathering reeds in the Al-Chibayish marshes, Iraq — work that has structured women’s lives here for millennia. As the water has receded, so has their mobility, income and standing. As Hutiehut shared with me, “We want our children to also be buffalo breeders, but with no water what can you do?”” — #NatGeoExplorer nicholesobecki

“Hutiehut’s daughter plays on the bow of the family boat as the glow of oil fields burns over the water in Al-Chibayish, Iraq, where some of the country’s largest petroleum reserves lie beneath the marshes, contaminating water, soil and air. In five thousand years, no generation of children born here has been the last. This one may be.” — #NatGeoExplorer nicholesobecki

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