Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area North & East
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While the gas bubbles at the river are called out that environmental protections prevent them, there is no such callout for the general "spending an hour in the planar bloom". And there is no wording vs the Life Bubble spell on either. When I played this led to arguments about if people were exposed or not. I'd like a clarification to prevent more arguments when I run it.
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Having run this scenario twice, I went with "planar energies that do magical mumbo jumbo", although I didn't explain it like that. After they had been in the lush jungle for a while, I told them that some of their armors were showing signs of discoloration into more vibrant hues. And that it wasn't something stuck to it, but an alteration to the armor itself through some planar interference. I made it clear that if they spend longer in this jungle, that "whatever this is" will eventually go past the armor.
Now twice I had the luck that this explanation was enough for the players to accept the mystical nature of it all. But your milage may vary.
I can't offer any kind of official answer, but my take is that the planar bloom is an insidious rewriting of the planar fabric, akin to what's happening in the novel/film ANNIHILATION. So with that in mind, I would not let environmental protections protect against it.