In the year that has been transpired since we last spoke with thanatologist (climate grief specialist) Kriss Kevorkian, we have been hit head on with flooding, hurricanes, building collapse, droughts and wildfire. Neck deep in the knowledge of human caused climate change, Kriss offers her wisdom to help us cope .

In an excerpt from her 2012 novel "Flight Behavior" Barbara Kingsolver's characters explain the goal of 350 ppm and the frightening aspect of global temperature rise in a language every lay person can understand.

Michele Smith shares her journey to founding the Resiliency School and offers a three step process to help us build our resilience muscle.

Jillian Ambrose, the energy correspondent at Guardian News and Media details ways our climate grief is holding us back from taking action.

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Barcelona, Sidney, Los Angeles, along with Canada's largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver, have signed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

This week guest's on Eaarth Feels is Lyn Adamson, co-chair of Climate Fast and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. She discusses the proposed treaty, and shares what gives her hope in this time of climate emergency.

"Despite decades of climate negotiations, we have not stopped adding to CO2 in the atmosphere. Rather, the process is speeding up. That is why it is so urgent that we have a global agreement to immediately stop any new fossil fuel projects, to phase out existing uses of fossil fuels, and to go full tilt into a renewable energy future with everything we’ve got."

Is it time for a Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty, inspired by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons? Lyn Adamson says yes.

"Climate change and all of the problems in the world are energetically based, because we are all energy, whether you realize it or not."

Christine chats with energy healer Sandra Boatman about the possibility that the roots of the planetary environmental crisis originate in human consciousness. They explore how this understanding can revolutionize how we think about ourselves and the world around us and offer practical ways to raise our own, and the planet's, level of consciousness.

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström detail the current state of Planet Earth while offering a hopeful path of action to avert this ongoing crisis.

This story originally appeared on Mongabay.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Wildfires, floods, and now the dire IPCC report ; collectively humanity is being traumatized by our uncertain future. Rose talks with psychotherapist Patricia Fero about naming this intense emotion and ways we can help one another through .

In this time of upheaval and division, Corina Luna Dea offers this powerfully hopeful  essay reminding us that it is not too late for us to embrace our true nature as caring beings.