<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090890" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); transition: 0.1s linear; text-decoration: none; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="press-release-card__meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; align-items: center;"><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px;">16-Jul-2025</div></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Self-reporting climate anxiety in the United States is linked to being young, female, believing climate change will impact you personally, and more frequent media and community discussions around climate change</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 10px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; color: rgb(144, 144, 144); transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">PLOS</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="category" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(144, 144, 144); text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 10px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 19px;"> A new study describes factors associated with self-reported climate anxiety in the United States, publishing July 16, 2025 in the open-access journal <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLOS Climate</em> by Katherine Kricorian<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </strong>from For Good Measure, United States, and colleagues Karin Turner and Christopher Kricorian, a current high school student. </p></div></div><dl class="dl-horizontal meta hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;">JOURNAL</dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLOS Climate</em></dd></dl></a><div>
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