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It is estimated that 13 million people in the UK suffer from hay fever - an allergy to different pollens.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

She also explains that asthma is likely influenced by where someone lives—exposure to pollutants as well as the types of pollens or allergens can differ from region to region.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023

The sticky stuff captured mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant sloths and other iconic Ice Age mammals along with a near-perfect cross-section of the world they inhabited: birds, insects, plants, seeds, pollens.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022

Climate scientists at the University of Michigan looked at 15 different plant pollens in the United States and used computer simulations to calculate how much worse allergy season will likely get by the year 2100.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2022

Here, lodged in transparent cells, are the pollens, love-ferment of every flower of spring, making brilliant splashes of red and yellow, of black and mauve.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred