Climate change is a systemic, global phenomenon so enormous and complex that mental health experts are just beginning to synthesize supporting data on the prevalence, severity, and nature of its mental health impacts.

What research shows so far:

Exposure to climate change can be direct (the impact of acute climate disasters, e.g., PTSD after a flood, wildfire, superstorm) or indirect (secondary effects of climate not associated with acute disaster, such as the downstream im

When you feel homesick for a home you never left, that’s solastalgia.

Solastalgia is when you feel as if the comfort, or solace, you get from feeling at home in a place has been taken from you, causing algia, which means pain in Latin.

With solastalgia, you are still living in the place you call home, but the environment has changed so much that it doesn’t feel like the same home anymore. When experiencing this uncanny, home-but-not-home feeling, a complex mix of emotions can arise—including grief, sadness, loss of identity, and anxiety.

Anything that changes a place and is outside the control of inhabitants can cause feelings of solastalgia.

In Hurricane Ida, Holly lost her house. Then she went right back to providing mental health care to her storm-ravaged community.

What's it been like for Holly and her clients? And what has she learned from the experience that can help clinicians in other climate disasters in the future?

Four climate-aware mental health professionals share their approach to taking action.

The last time conditions were as dry in the American West as they are in June 2022, it was at least 800 A.D., and possibly earlier. Charlemagne was king of the Franks. The Maori people were migrating on their earliest canoes to New Zealand. To vastly understate—the West Coast is parched, and (due to global warming) the parching trends towards permanence. Aquifers are draining down, and waterways are disappearing. At the end of March, the US federal government informed the agricultural communitie

Climate anxiety. It's getting lots of attention, but is it the right focus for climate-aware mental health?