Anxiety is a helpful and important emotion. Its purpose is to alert us to possible threats and keep us alive. It would be pretty difficult to function in the world if we didn’t experience anxiety.

More than 9,000 personnel have been working this week to contain blazes around the country, including more than 50 large ...

For days, uncontrollable wildfires have swept through Los Angeles, reducing people's homes, livelihoods, and sense of stability to rubble. On a physical level, the fires present an obvious threat, ...

For Angelenos living in neighborhoods not decimated by fire, the acute threat seems to have temporarily passed. But dry conditions remain unchanged, making it easy for new fires to break out. When our ...

A new study conducted in Lake County, California—one of the most wildfire-affected regions in the country—has found that residents' anxiety and stress about climate change are associated with ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Even if you're nowhere near any of the fires right now, the widespread emergency is triggering more anxiety for many of us. Experts showed us some coping strategies to help ease ...

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