Comments on: How Climate Change Makes Poison Ivy Worse

By: alveo

alveo — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:19:16 +0000

You could try alveo to avoid those things

By: Diane MacEachern

Diane MacEachern — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:12:23 +0000

I hope your son (and your whole family) will still enjoy the outdoors – we don’t want to lose our connection to Mother Nature, right? Thanks for writing.

By: ClimateMama

ClimateMama — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:57:06 +0000

My son too, suffers from a poison ivy allergy that is getting worse every year. Sadly, he feels he can no longer go “off trail” in parks and in the woods behind our house, for fear of brushing against a poison ivy plant. Thanks for connecting these dots!

By: Alison Solove @ExperimentalWifery

Alison Solove @ExperimentalWifery — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:27:09 +0000

It’s not just global warming isn’t the only environmental factor contributing to the rise of poison ivy problems. Poison ivy is only partially shade tolerant, so it thrives in suburban areas where trees have been cut down to build communities.
(Incidentally, watch out for stinging nettles in developed areas, too. Stinging nettles thrive on high levels of nitrogen in soil. They love the areas around abandoned buildings.)