Tag: Allergies

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Allergy Season: Earlier, Longer, and Worse

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7/25/2023 - By climatecentral.org. KEY CONCEPTS Plants are leafing and blooming earlier, and the overall growing season is lasting longer across much of the U.S. Analysis of temperature data for 203 U.S. cities shows the freeze-free season lengthened by more than two weeks (15 days) on average since 1970. For millions of… SEE MORE

Allergies
climate change

Climate Change to Make Pollen Season Nastier

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Health & Safety
Weather & Tides

3/16/2022 - By Seth Borenstein. 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… SEE MORE

Allergies
climate change