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01/27/2018 / By Earl Garcia

Pharmaceuticals and other manmade contaminants affecting fish survivability by altering metabolism; pharmaceuticals threatening the food supply

A recent animal study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology revealed that exposure to pharmaceutical contaminants and pollutants — such as birth-control medication, anti-depressants and beta blockers — may drive fishes that live downstream from a typical sewage treatment plant to exert more effort to boost their survival. A team of researchers at McMaster […]

01/17/2018 / By Earl Garcia

Toxic firefighting foam contaminated the water at a Colorado Air Force base, now veterans and residents are coming down with cancer

A Colorado air force base recently came under fire as water contaminated with perfluorinated compounds (PFC) was associated with the onset of various forms of cancer among people living in close proximity to the base. A Daily Mail report noted that former soldiers, firefighters and residents near the Peterson Air Force base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, were diagnosed with thyroid, […]

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