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UVA Today Feature: How Do You Fight Climate Anxiety?

UVA Today Feature: How Do You Fight Climate Anxiety?
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UVA Today highlighted From Fear to Action: Thriving in a Changing Climate, a talk hosted by the University of Virginia’s Environmental Institute and Contemplative Sciences Center with Britt Wray, a Stanford University researcher focused on the intersection of climate change and mental health — February 21, 2024.

Ahead of the event on February 22, 2024, UVA Today talked with Michael Sheehy, director of research at the UVA’s Contemplative Sciences Center, and Karen McGlathery, director of UVA’s Environmental Institute, to learn about what’s being done to mitigate climate change and how to manage anxiety.