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10/12/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Climate and pollution: De-icing salt has increased salt concentrations in lakes and waterways as much as a hundredfold in the last 50 years

According to experts, we must come up with less-harmful options to road salt when winter comes and roads turn into dangerous “ice rinks.” Researchers believe that road salt is now harming the country’s waterways and that various organisms such as fish, frogs, and microscopic zooplankton could be in danger. For years, salt has been strewn along […]

03/12/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Microplastics are leaking directly from an industry manufacturing site, spreading across a large coastal region

Microplastics have been leaking out into the environment by the millions from a manufacturing site in Stenungsund. But, far from just affecting the immediate area, these tiny plastic pellets have spread all over the coastal region. This was what a team of researchers from Gothenburg University uncovered over the course of several studies. As Martin […]

07/17/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Confirmed: Contraceptive drugs are turning fish into transgenders

Despite the evidence suggesting that there are many possible dangers associated with birth control drugs, an estimated 12 million women in the United States take an oral contraceptive, commonly referred to as “the pill,” to prevent pregnancy. While birth control pills are convenient and, for the most part, effective at preventing unwanted pregnancies, they are […]

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