{"id":5684,"date":"2026-04-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:30:26","slug":"climate-change-lengthens-pollen-season-while-extreme-heat-causes-one-death-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5684","title":{"rendered":"Climate change lengthens pollen season while extreme heat causes one death a minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>Pollen season is two weeks longer thanks to climate change, spelling more suffering for those with hay fever while extreme heat is responsible for one death a minute, a new report finds.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/climate-change-lengthens-pollen-season-while-extreme-heat-causes-one-death-a-minute-1777382112522.webp\" data-image=\"2t0hxq0or8a2\" alt=\"Climate change lengthens pollen season while extreme heat causes one death a minute\" title=\"Climate change lengthens pollen season while extreme heat causes one death a minute\">Hay fever sufferers face an extra two weeks of pollen compared to the 1990s. Image: Adobe.<\/figure>\n<p>Climate change has lengthened the pollen season by up to two weeks compared to the 1990s according to the 2026 Europe Report of the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also driving the spread of infectious diseases and causing one heat-related death a minute, raising questions about whether a healthier, more resilient future is possible.<\/p>\n<p>Prolonged hay fever season<\/p>\n<p>The report tracked trends in climate change and health, with 43 indicators across five domains, and found climate change has extended the pollen season by one to two weeks compared to the 1990s, meaning hay fever sufferers are at risk of increased exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, climate change is driving the spread of infectious diseases in Europe. For example, the overall average risk for dengue outbreaks has almost quadrupled increasing by 297% in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ Pollen season is two weeks longer thanks to climate change, spelling more suffering for those with hay fever while extreme heat is responsible for one death a minute, a new report finds. Hay fever sufferers face an extra two weeks of pollen compared to the 1990s. Image: Adobe. Climate change has lengthened the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}