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- Media Coverage… such as fish and platypus. November 6, 2018 | Daily Mail Pharmaceutical Pollution Insects that live near streams are … trout and platypus. Many of the insects examined contained pharmaceutical chemicals at concentrations that may threaten … sampled six streams in Melbourne, Australia, for 98 pharmaceutical compounds. They measured for common drugs such …
- Blog: Translational Ecology… President Emeritus, Biogeochemist April 7, 2022 Pharmaceutical Pollution In the developed world, humans enjoy … crossing 104 countries and analyzing the waters for 61 pharmaceutical chemicals. Among the most widespread … in freshwaters are not good for humans either. Not all pharmaceutical compounds can be removed by traditional …
- Media Coverage… Photo by 一帆 尹 August 23, 2021 | US News & World Report Pharmaceutical Pollution Leaky sewer pipes are to blame for … enter the Bay via leaks every year – carrying a range of pharmaceutical compounds that can affect aquatic organisms …
- Feature… tools to fight them. Photo by Paislie August 16, 2023 Pharmaceutical Pollution Bats carry a number of viruses that … is basic or nonexistent. Another major concern is that pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities have been known to … overlaps between insect-eating bat species and estimated pharmaceutical concentrations in surface waters, highlighting …
- Press Release… functioning Photo by Stefan via iNaturalist June 15, 2021 Pharmaceutical Pollution Pharmaceutical pollution is found in streams and rivers … in streams and rivers are exposed to a chronic mix of pharmaceutical pollution as a result of wastewater …
- Podcast… up in our water supply, effecting local ecosystems. Pharmaceutical drugs and personal care products are showing …
- Podcast… treatment plants. We know little about how the mix of pharmaceutical by-products in natural waters might affect us, … meantime, please don’t flush your expired drugs. Look up a pharmaceutical take-back program. Photo: Flickr Golbog … 17 … …
- Media Coverage… threaten stream ecologies April 2, 2013 | by Erik Stokstad Pharmaceutical Pollution Most streams that flow near cities … with drugs that escape from sewage treatment plants or pharmaceutical factories. Although often occurring at … took 30-ml cups filled with agar and added one kind of pharmaceutical, then covered them with a filter on which the …
- Press Release… & diatom communities. August 25, 2016 Freshwater , Pharmaceutical Pollution (Millbrook, NY) Pharmaceutical and illicit drugs are present in streams in … Lee and her collaborators measured concentrations of pharmaceutical and illicit drugs at six stream sites along an …
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Aquatic ecologist Emma Rosi talks about pharmaceuticals in waterways and research into the ways they may be affecting aquatic life.
- Feature… data from Baltimore’s Gwynns Falls watershed to study pharmaceutical loads and downstream implications. I’m … from the wastewater treatment is a major source of pharmaceutical contamination to the Chesapeake Bay. What made …
- Blog: Translational Ecology… President Emeritus, Biogeochemist January 30, 2017 Pharmaceutical Pollution The Clean Water Act focused on water … 35: 1986-1994. Rosi-Marshall, E.J. and T.V. Royer. 2012. Pharmaceutical compounds and ecosystem function: an emerging …
- Blog: Translational Ecology… President Emeritus, Biogeochemist September 17, 2019 Pharmaceutical Pollution Although often attributed to Sir …
- Media Coverage… 26, 2016 | CNN | by Jen Christensen Drinking Water , Pharmaceutical Pollution Note: This article asserts that this …
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Drinking water supplies around the world often contain trace amounts of pharmaceuticals, agricultural and industrial chemicals, and other synthetic compounds that can harm reproduction in fish and may be linked to adverse health effects in humans.
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Gwynns Falls in Baltimore has a drug problem. Researchers found amphetamines, opioids and morphine in the water, and that kind of pollution is having an impact on the aquatic food chain. WBAL-TV reports.
- Media Coverage… by Christophe Quintin June 15, 2021 | National Geographic Pharmaceutical Pollution , Wildlife & Habitat An … questions about the extent and impact of this type of pharmaceutical pollution, says co-author A.J. Reisinger , who … of 76,000 nanograms per liter in an area with several pharmaceutical plants. Antidepressants can contaminate …
- Press Release… 24, 2017 Drinking Water , Land-use & Human Impacts , Pharmaceutical Pollution (Millbrook, NY) Despite a steady … value of synthetic chemicals and for the pesticide and pharmaceutical chemical sectors individually. Author Emily S. …
- Feature… weather influences waste-water discharge, the presence of pharmaceutical pollution and toxins that adhere to …
- Lecture Video… a freshwater ecologist at the Cary Institute, explores how pharmaceutical drugs and personal care products are polluting …