Climate Change: Rise in Google Searches Around ‘Anxiety’

Nov 22, 2023 | Lucy Gilder
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Online search queries related to "climate anxiety" have risen, according to data gathered by Google and shared exclusively with BBC 100 Women.Studies also suggests that women are more affected by climate anxiety than men.The rise of wildfires, floods and droughts around the world are just some of the highly visible signs of climate change.What is reported less is the impact of climate change on human minds.Climate anxiety - defined as feelings of distress about the impacts of climate change - has been reported globally, particularly among children and young people.Data from Google Trends shows that search queries related to "climate anxiety" have increased dramatically.Search queries in English around "climate anxiety" in the first 10 months of 2023 are 27 times higher than the same period in 2017.