Changes in temperature and season do affect our health – and not just when the weather turns cold.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Spring
Displaying 41 - 45 of 45 articles
OK, it doesn’t smell great. But skunk cabbage has a unique secret weapon to help it be one of the first plants to emerge from the snow at the end of winter.
It’s now late spring, with summer just around the corner, and many people with hay fever suffer at this time of year in Australia. Although the cause of this suffering is invisible to us, it is actually…
It’s the time of the equinox or more specifically the spring equinox for us in the southern hemisphere. The equinox is a midpoint. It’s around now that day and night become equal in length (but more about…
The spring of 2013 has been Australia’s warmest on record. Mean temperatures for the season were 1.57C above the 1961-1990 average, surpassing the previous record of 1.43C (set in 2006) by 0.14C. Daytime…
Top contributors
-
Professor of Biology, Boston University
-
Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Environment and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
-
Professor of Botany, Edge Hill University
-
Respiratory Allergy Stream Co-chair, National Allergy Centre of Excellence; Professor and Head, Allergy Research Group, Queensland University of Technology
-
Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
-
Associate Professor, International Studies and Global Societies, University of Technology Sydney
-
Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-
Research Fellow and Co-head, Australian Venom Research Unit, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
-
Associate Professor and Environmental Health Scientist, Macquarie University
-
Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
-
Associate Professor of Biology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
-
Professor of Immunology and Allergy, Western Sydney University
