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Canary chats with Generation Dread author Britt Wray about climate anxiety and how to deal.

A Stanford researcher shares what she’s learned about the ways climate change affects mental health and offers practical advice

Our May 24 event will offer solutions to working through the emotional pressures of the climate crisis.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we talk to author Britt Wray about the upside to climate anxiety and look at why goldfish are proliferating in Canadian waterways.

Planetary Postdoctoral Health Fellow Britt Wray discusses her recently published book about dealing with climate anxiety and her own path to finding purpose in a chaotic time.

Highlights include: an exploration of why left-handers are so special; how math and geometry is helping corrupt American democracy; re-examining Richard Wright's legacy and enduring relevance; and science writer Britt Wray on her book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis.

Britt Wray is a leading researcher on the mental health impact of climate change. In an e360 interview, she talks about the rise of climate anxiety in young people, how social media exacerbates this trend, and why distress about the climate crisis can spur positive change.

COVID created a second, mental-health pandemic. The one sparked by climate change will be worse. And already young people are the ones hit hardest

Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.

Anxiety over climate change is widespread, but young people in particular are reshaping their futures based on their feelings around the climate crisis.