'Epidemic of climate anxiety': Woodland Trust warns nature loss is impacting mental health

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'Epidemic of climate anxiety': Woodland Trust warns nature loss is impacting mental health

The conservation charity has commissioned new research which demonstrates younger generation is increasingly worried about climate change and has limited access to green spaces

"Drastic action" is required to increase the dwindling stock of UK woodlands to help tackle the climate and nature crisis, as well provide increasingly anxious younger generations with access to green...

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