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Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

Staff at a state-run clinic serving wildfire survivors in Hawaii have waited months for permanent jobs. Instead, they got another temporary contract.

By Keerti Gopal

The Maui County Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic in Lahaina, Hawaii. Credit: Sean Hower/Civil Beat
Julissa Hernandez used to run track and field as a student at Niagara Falls High School before her asthma forced her to quit. She believes the poor air quality in in the New York town contributed to her complications. Credit: Jennifer Wybieracki

How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis

By Jennifer Wybieracki

Low clouds blanket Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state. Credit: Craig Tuttle/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Ted Bundy, Serial Killers and Lead Exposure: Exploring the Connection Between Neurotoxins and Violence

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A person walks through a flooded street from the rising Anclote River as the region tries to recover from Hurricane Milton on Oct. 11, 2024, in New Port Richey, Fla. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

How Climate Change Exacerbates ‘Weathering,’ the Physical Toll of Racism

By Nina Dietz

Khaled Fouad (left) and Mimi Laine embrace as they inspect a family member’s property that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on Jan. 9 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

LA Fire Victims Have Become ‘Dysregulated,’ Making it Hard to Focus and Make Decisions 

By Nina Dietz

A man comforts his daughter on the charred ruins of their family home burned in the Eaton Fire on Jan. 9 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: Zoë Meyers/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Trauma Is a Thing. Here’s What the Research Reveals

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Heather McTeer Toney, executive director of Beyond Petrochemicals, has spent her career working to protect Mississippi from industrial pollution. Credit: Timothy Ivy

Climate Change ‘Burnout’ Is Taking Its Toll

By Nina Dietz

Reckoning With Climate Anxiety in the Wake of the US Election

By Kiley Price

A pharmacist retrieves a package of antidepressant medication from a pharmacy drawer in Berlin. Credit: Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images

Psychotropic Medications and High Heat Don’t Mix

By Nina Dietz

Activists from the youth-led Sunrise Movement rally outside the Democratic National Committee’s office to urge Kamala Harris to make bold climate policy central to her campaign on July 29. Credit: Rachael Warriner/Sunrise Movement

The Depths of Their Discontent: Young Americans Are Distraught Over Climate Change

By Nina Dietz

Olivia Vesovich, one of 16 youth plaintiffs in Held v. Montana, on her favorite hiking trail in Missoula, Montana in July 2023. Credit: Tailyr Irvine/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

How to Talk to Anxious Children About Climate Change

By Nina Dietz

A group gathers for an in-person session of the Good Grief Network facilitated by LaUra Schmidt (center left) in Salt Lake City. Credit: Leah Hogsten

Group Therapy Sessions Proliferate for People Afflicted With ‘Eco-Distress’

By Nina Dietz

Psychiatrist Lise van Susteren is a co-founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and the Climate Psychology Alliance-North America. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Almost 20 Years Ago, a Mid-Career Psychiatrist Started Thinking About Climate Anxiety and Mental Health

By Nina Dietz

Rural Fire Service firefighters are seen by containment lines at the Three Mile Fire during “Black Summer” on the Central Coast of Australia in December 2019. Studies have examined the psychological impacts of the unprecedented bushfire season. Credit: Sam Mooy/Getty Images

In the Developing Field of Climate Psychology, ‘Eco-Anxiety’ Is a Rational Response

By Nina Dietz

Kids Are Particularly Vulnerable to Extreme Weather. What Are We Doing About It?

By Kiley Price

Children sit in the sand at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina in the evening of July 23, 2023 to avoid the heat of the daytime. Credit: Madeline Gray for The Washington Post via Getty Images

As the Country Heats Up, ERs May See an Influx of Young Patients Struggling With Mental Health

By Jenaye Johnson

Sasser Sasser uses her research to show how climate emotions land hardest on marginalized groups, people of color and low-income groups. Credit: Courtesy photo

Q&A: Should We Be Having Babies In a Warming World? 

By Victoria St. Martin

Sonya Sanders poses for a portrait outside her home in Philadelphia on Dec. 19, 2023. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

To Live and Die in Philadelphia: Sonya Sanders Grew Up Next Door to a Giant Refinery. She’s Still Suffering From Environmental Trauma

By Victoria St. Martin

A teacher speaks to students in a second grade class at Weaverville Elementary School on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 in Weaverville, California. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Climate Divide in the Classroom, an All-Electric City and Rising Global Temperatures’ Effects on Mental Health

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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