Published 2 years ago

Allergy season will start much earlier than normal and be far more intense because of climate crisis, study suggests

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Warmer weather allows plants to start blooming earlier and keeps them blooming later. Carbon dioxide in the air from burning fuels such as coal, gasoline and natural gas helps plants produce more pollen. In the most extreme and increasingly unlikely warming scenario, pollen season in much of America will start 40 days earlier.

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The Independent

Climate crisis ‘to triple pollen levels’ as hay fever season grows more intense

US pollen season now starting about a month earlier

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

The Big Sneeze: Climate change to make pollen season nastier

Climate change has already made allergy season longer and pollen counts higher, but you ain’t sneezed nothing yet. Climate scientists at the University of Michigan looked at 15 different plant pollens in the United States and used computer simulations to calculate how much worse allergy season will likely get by the year 2100.

2 years ago·United States

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abc News

The Big Sneeze: Climate change to make pollen season nastier

Climate change will continue to make allergy season longer and more intense

2 years ago·United States

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CNN

Allergy season will start much earlier than normal and be far more intense because of climate crisis, study suggests

Future allergy seasons will start more than a month earlier and be far more intense because of the climate crisis, new research shows.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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CBS Local

Allergy Season Will Start Much Earlier Than Normal And Be Far More Intense Because Of Climate Crisis, Study Suggests

(CNN) — Future allergy seasons will start more than a month earlier and be far more intense because of the climate crisis, new research shows.The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found by the end of the century, pollen season could begin as much as 40 days earlier than it has in recent decades in the US because of global warming. Researchers also found annual pollen counts could climb by up to 250%.“Pollen is someth…

2 years ago·United States

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