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Climate change’s hidden threat: grief and trauma

As natural disasters grow worse and more frequent, fear about what the future holds is increasingly entering the therapy room.

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Forest therapy helps survivors of climate-fueled Paradise wildfire

Forest therapy helps survivors of climate-fueled Paradise wildfire

A California forest therapy program is testing whether landscapes ravaged by rising temperatures can help ease the anguish that climate change will bring.
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William Shatner experienced profound grief in space. It was the 'overview effect'

After traveling to space, astronauts gain a greater understanding of how precious, and delicate, the Earth is. Many astronauts report that they were aware of climate change and global warming, but they became much more sensitive to the subject after traveling to space.

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How to cope with climate grief and a changing planet

As I reckon with thesometimes subtle shifts that a warmer climate is bringing to my own home, I’m still trying to understand what it means to grieve a changing planet.

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These climate scientists are fed up and ready to go on strike

These climate scientists are fed up and ready to go on strike

Evidence on global warming is piling up. Nations aren’t acting. Some researchers are asking what difference more reports will make.
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Climate change enters the therapy room

Climate change enters the therapy room

Ten years ago, psychologists proposed that a wide range of people would suffer anxiety and grief over climate. Skepticism about that idea is gone.
With nightmares and tears, a Kentucky town feels the long reach of a tornado's trauma

With nightmares and tears, a Kentucky town feels the long reach of a tornado's trauma

The physical toll on Mayfield, Ky., is evident. The psychological anguish will be equally difficult to overcome.
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