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The climate crisis has been called the "biggest global health threat of the 21st century," and there is a growing awareness that it puts mental as well as physical health in jeopardy. Now, a first-of-its-kind study published in Scientific Reports Monday finds an association between the increased humidity caused by global heating and suicide.
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The climate crisis is taking a growing toll on the mental health of children and young people, experts have said.
Increasing levels of “eco-anxiety” the chronic fear of environmental doom are likely to be underestimated and damaging to many in the long term, public health experts said.
Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Mala Rao and Richard Powell of Imperial College London’s Department of Primary Care and Public Health said that eco-anxiety “risks exacerbating health and social inequalities between those more or less vulnerable to these psychological impacts.”
Although not yet considered a diagnosable condition, recognition of eco-anxiety and its