{"id":941144,"date":"2026-10-21T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:46:10","slug":"can-planting-more-trees-make-allergies-worse-short-wave-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941144\/","title":{"rendered":"Can planting more trees make allergies worse? : Short Wave : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792575970_604_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3219x1811+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff7%2Fea%2F43a652d64af7b480d494b84d6653%2F0cd3e20c-4593-4330-834e-32c0de7b6e2d.jpeg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Sun shines through a tree-lined New York City block. \" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Planting more trees is good for cities, but they can pose risks to people living with asthma.<\/p>\n<p>                    Juan Diego Ramirez\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<br \/>\n                i<\/p>\n<p>        Juan Diego Ramirez\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>Trees provide shade and clean air in congested cities, so planting more of them seems like a straightforward solution. But trees also produce a natural pollutant\u2014 pollen. In this episode, producer Juan Diego Ramirez reports on the link between growing urban canopies and allergy exposure, and what you can do to protect yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in more health stories? Email us your question at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/10\/21\/nx-s1-5953066\/mailto:shortwave@npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shortwave@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show&#8217;s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Short Wave on <a href=\"https:\/\/n.pr\/3HOQKeK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/n.pr\/3WA9vqh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Elana Gordon. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez. Tyler Jones checked the facts. The audio engineer was Annlie Huang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planting more trees is good for cities, but they can pose risks to people living with asthma. Juan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-941144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}