With dire environmental warnings and extreme weather events in the news almost every day, it can be tempting to simply avoid thinking about the climate crisis. But how do climate scientists, who must ...

A few years ago, researcher Maya Gislason's young child came home from school with her crayon drawing of Earth in 2020 and 2050. "The first was blue and green; the second was a planet on fire," she ...

New research has found that we are more likely to back policies aimed at tackling climate change when we feel fearful, but feelings of dread make us less likely to support such policies. Published in ...

As global environmental change accelerates, humans are increasingly exposed to a spectrum of climate-related stressors such as extreme weather events, ...

Eco-anxiety is "a term that encompasses the set of emotional responses of the population to the anticipation and experience ...

Dealing with, and learning from, our intense climate emotions isn’t so different from dealing with and learning from our other emotions, though it can be a bit more intense. In this post, I offer ...

Climate targets have long been treated as technical challenges, focused on infrastructure and behaviour change. Yet as climate movements show, people often need to connect emotionally to the facts in ...

Your climate values are conflicting with your closest relationships. Here's some advice on how to cope, from therapist Leslie Davenport.