When Hurricanes Helene and Milton tore through the southeastern United States in 2024, they left behind more than flooded neighborhoods and downed power lines. They left a psychological residue that researchers are only beginning to quantify. A new study published in PLOS Mental Health offers one of the most detailed portraits yet of how the stresses of living through back-to-back hurricanes translate into climate anxiety, the chronic worry many…
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