What does it mean to manage our eco-anxiety?

As the weather warms up, CBC Edmonton's podcast explores climate-based grief

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Caption: Climate change activists marched alongside oil and gas industry supporters in 2019 at a rally with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. (Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press)

Climate grief and eco-anxiety are not mainstream ideas, but the term is gaining ground among researchers. But what does it actually mean to cope with our feelings around climate change?

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Alberta had several record-setting weather events in 2023, we're coming out of a weird winter and spring is just days away. On the latest This Is Edmonton podcast, host Clare Bonnyman is joined by CBC climate reporter Stephanie Cram to take a closer look at our weather patterns and data.
Plus, the podcast enjoys the great outdoors with Stephanie Olsen, a University of Alberta master's student who is using a public health perspective to study ways community can come together to overcome climate-based anxiety.

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