Anxiety often lingers after an environmental disaster. A new tool could help measure it

The morning of August 30, 2018, is seared into Colleen Hartland's mind. She watched as a plume of thick, black smoke twisted its way over rows of houses at Tottenham, in Melbourne's west. Sirens whirred past the former Victorian Greens MP's house. It was the day an industrial fire sent a torrent of dangerous chemicals through Stony Creek in Cruickshank Park, killing scores of fish, damaging trees and turning the waterway into an oil-slicked swamp. "It was stomach churning," Ms Hartland said.

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