mental health

Why Climate Grief Is an Essential for Climate Action

Why Climate Grief Is an Essential for Climate Action

When I read news about the latest IPCC climate assessment report, or predictions of imminent mass extinction, I admit that the statistics — the exact degree of warming, the number of feet sea levels will rise, how many species will die — find fewer footholds in my brain than the overwhelming sorrow they elicit.

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    4 Essential Oils for Anxiety

    4 Essential Oils for Anxiety

    Essential oils have many health benefits, but anxiety management is where they really shine. Like a bullet straight to the heart of your biochemistry, their phytochemicals can swiftly enter the bloodstream and relieve anxiety fast. Here are the four best essential oils for anxiety: Lavender Bergamot Rose Chamomile What makes these essential oils so effective […]

    Study: Birds Are Linked to Happiness Levels

    Study: Birds Are Linked to Happiness Levels

    A new study reveals that greater bird biodiversity brings greater joy to people, according to recent findings from the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research. In fact, scientists concluded that conservation is just as important for human well-being as financial security. The study, published in Ecological Economics, focused on European residents, and determined that happiness […]

    How Can We Comprehend the Climate Crisis?

    How Can We Comprehend the Climate Crisis?

    By Gero Rueter The science is clear. If we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the same rate we have been doing for the past decades, 80 years from now, our planet will be at least four degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels. “And the warming won’t stop there,” climate researcher and oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf told […]

    How to Heal Emotional Trauma After a Climate Disaster

    How to Heal Emotional Trauma After a Climate Disaster

    By Jamie Smith Hopkins Disasters are stressful. Our warming world keeps adding fuel to the fires — and floods and hurricanes, among other calamities. What can be done about the trauma that follows? The Center for Public Integrity, Columbia Journalism Investigations and our partners in newsrooms around the country have been reporting on this for […]

    Increasing Number of Climate Disasters Impacting Mental Health

    Increasing Number of Climate Disasters Impacting Mental Health

    The psychological toll of climate change-fueled disasters, now compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, is mounting and the U.S. is unprepared. These are the findings of a project by the Center for Public Integrity and Columbia Journalism Investigations, in collaboration with 10 local and regional outlets. The U.S. has faced nearly 40 billion-dollar disasters in the […]

    Children in Greener Urban Neighborhoods Have Higher IQs, Study Finds

    Children in Greener Urban Neighborhoods Have Higher IQs, Study Finds

    One of the best things you can do for your child’s well-being may be to raise them somewhere green. The latest study to examine the positive impacts of nature on children found that children living in greener urban areas had higher IQs than children living in less green areas. “There is more and more evidence […]