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Warming set to raise the pollen count
2016-09-04 10:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Allergic diseases already cause misery for hundreds of millions of people, with serious implications for public health budgets in both developed and developing countries. But new research suggests their prevalence will reach epidemic proportions over the coming decades because, in a changing climate, allergenic pollen-producing plants will thrive. A study funded by the European Union focuses on common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), a highly-invasive plant originally from North America...
Bee Pollen Improves Battery Performance
2016-03-04 05:31:00| Chemical Processing
Researchers discover that pollen grain microstructure acts as efficient energy storage unit.
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Purdue team uses pollen grains as basis for carbon architectures for Li-ion anodes
2016-02-08 12:56:13| Green Car Congress
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Ancient pollen reveals droughts between Sierra Nevada glacier surges
2015-11-01 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Hidden below the surface of California's Central Valley are pollen grains from the Pleistocene that are providing scientists with clues to the severity of droughts that struck the region between glacial periods. The Pleistocene -- the age of mammoths and mastodons -- occurred between 1.8 million and 11,500 years ago. For this new study, scientists dug up Pleistocene sediment samples containing buried pollen from the Central Valley. They found that pollen samples dated from interglacial periods --...
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Allergies: Europe's ragweed pollen counts to quadruple by 2050?
2015-05-28 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Airborne concentrations of common ragweed pollen, a potent allergen, could increase fourfold in Europe by 2050. Researchers believe climate change will be responsible for two thirds of this increase, while the remainder will be due to the plant's spread, as a result of human activity. These estimates by researchers from the CNRS, CEA, INERIS and RNSA , in collaboration with several European institutes, show that it is now necessary to implement coordinated management of this invasive plant on the...
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