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  "textContent": "Climate change is widely known to affect physical health—but new research suggests the mental health toll could be enormous. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health projects that rising temperatures could lead to hundreds of millions to billions of additional anxiety and depression symptom-days each year across the United States, with the greatest burden falling on low-income communities and parts of Appalachia.",
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