Pollen

High concentrations of Saharan dust that enveloped most of Greece on Wednesday are to remain Thursday and Friday, heaviest in the west and south of the country. Experts warn that bacteria, fungi and pollen can be embedded in African dust, further affecting vulnerable groups.

High concentrations of pollen were reported in the air this week, warn experts from the national laboratory that monitors allergen levels.

Currently, every third Bulgarian suffers from allergies, and the number of those exposed to hay fever is growing with each passing year.

Integrated markets were thought to have started with the industrial revolution, but now pollen data demonstrates unexpectedly skewed crop choices

The next time your spring allergies start acting up, don't be too cross with the pollen causing them, because hundreds of years from now, it may provide palynology scientists and researchers with valuable clues about the vegetation around you and the changes that the landscape has undergone.

Dozens of people, including specialists and people allergic to ragweed pollen on Sunday staged a protest at Kiseleff Park, Bucharest City, to draw attention to the fact that the law on combating the effects of ragweed in not enforced yet.

After flu and autumn-winter viral infections there is a series of allergies, which are activated among people in spring. Every third Bulgarian suffers from some form of allergy, as the frequency of this problem increases every year.

A team of geologists from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca is conducting a research project that uses guano deposits in several Romanian caves, some of them more than 10,000 years old, to determine the climate changes occurred in various geological periods.

Photo credit: (c) Babes-Bolyai University project website

Every third Bulgarian suffers from some kind of allergy, most often allergic rhinitis, reports radio Darik. 

From hay fever suffer between 20 and 25% of the population in the country.