There is a growing awareness that environmental degradation, which has dramatically
increased in pace, scope, and severity over the last few decades, is taking a toll on people's …

Not well represented in the literature, however, is an emotional response we term 'ecological
grief,'which we have defined in a recent Nature Climate Change article:“The grief felt in …

This chapter is an attempt to address environmental losses, to rethink what mourning is and
does in the context of the current climate crisis and thus to articulate and advance the …

Grief and mourning are part of the human journey. But what happens when sadness occurs
because of changes happening around us: losses to animals and plant species, changing …

This paper contrasts what it schematizes as “ecological grief” with a broader, more common
but conceptually elusive phenomenon of “Anthropocene horror.”“Ecological grief” was …

This essay builds upon recent work in the environmental humanities, and that of various
writers and journalists, on the emerging topic of environmental grief and mourning. I …

Enormous ecological losses and profound planetary transformations mean that ours is a
time to grieve beyond the human. Yet, Joshua Trey Barnett argues in this eloquent and …

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change,
large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean …

Globally, climate change is leading to environmental crises, which activists have been
fighting against for decades. Social scientists have rarely considered older adults as …

In responding to the spatiotemporally specific geographies of extinction charted in the
articles in this special section, this article reflects on the sociocultural factors that inform the …