For many people, denying the existence of a climate crisis is not only convenient but also may feel psychologically necessary. Many residents scrambled to evacuate, clogging roads away from the region ...

Hurricane Milton flooded parts of the Tampa Bay region just days after Hurricane Helene made landfall nearby. Bryan R. Smithy/AFP via Getty Images As TVs across Florida broadcast the all-too-familiar ...

Dumb jokes about the longest river in Egypt assume that denial is as familiar to everyone as the Nile is. But explorers were still searching for the source of the Nile just a few years ago (National ...

The concept of “being in denial” is often used as a value judgement, referring to the notion that a person is avoiding or negating reality. But what does being in denial really mean? The notion that ...