As the climate gets warmer, it's not just the environment that suffers — the human body does too. Four impacts of the climate crisis on the body — and what can help. Temperatures are rising. That also means: heatwaves put strain on the body, pollen seasons are becoming more intense, and mosquitoes that transmit diseases are increasingly feeling at home here too. Here's what can help.

Pollen

Climate change is intensifying pollen production: temperatures are rising, winters are getting shorter, and environmental pollutants in the air are increasing the pollen production of allergy-triggering plants. Researchers around the world have been measuring an increasing concentration of pollen in the air for years. Those affected by allergies can feel it: the pollen season this year, for example, is already starting around 20 days earlier than it did 20 years ago... Read the full article at derstandard.de.

Under the motto "From Knowledge to Action", the topic of "Health" and its relationship to climate change, including its influences and impacts, was developed in collaboration with the Environment Agency Austria. Find the brochures here!