Earlier this year the Met Office warned that hay fever could get worse due to climate change. And it’s not just a hypothetical problem we may face in the future. In a recent paper, researchers dug into pollen trends over the last 26 years across the UK, focussing on grass, birch and oak pollen, to investigate how changing weather patterns are already affecting hay fever season.
While the work showed that climate change is certainly having an effect, the exact changes depend on which kind of pollen you’re affected
