6 Minute English / Do you have eco-anxiety?

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Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I m Neil.

And I m Beth. Switch on the TV or read a newspaper and it's full of bad news about the environment. But climate change is damaging more than just the planet's health - it's affecting human health too.

A growing number of people around the world are experiencing something psychiatrists are calling, eco-anxiety. Eco-anxiety involves feeling grief, guilt, fear or hopelessness about the future of the planet due to climate change.

Of course, direct victims of climate change suffer most. Flood survivors experience depression and anxiety, and people breathing polluted air are at higher risk of dementia. But according to the Institute of Psychiatrists, just reading about the state of the planet in the news is causing stress and anxiety.

In this programme on eco-anxiety, we ll be learning some useful vocabulary related to this worrying topic and hopefully be hearing on some happier environmental news as well.

I hope so, Neil. With so much bad news, it's sometimes hard to feel optimistic about the future.

Well, here's a question about some good climate news for a change. In Australia, an animal thought to be extinct has been spotted for the first time in over fifty years. But is the animal:

a) a shark?

b) a lizard? or,