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10 Shocking Facts On Factory Farms Will Make You Rethink That Burger

Graphic by Hannah Williams In the United States, around 27 billion animals are raised for food every year. These animals…

4 years ago

Study finds pharmaceuticals, other chemicals in remote Minnesota lakes

Photo: A remote lake in Cook County, Minn. A three-year study by the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Pollution Control…

5 years ago

Fourteen Drugs Found in New York City’s Drinking Water

Water samples taken from three upstate watersheds by New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) revealed 14 different drugs,…

5 years ago

Concentrations of Pharmaceuticals in Freshwater Increasingly Globally

The environmental risks of ciprofloxacin in fresh water have increased worldwide between 1995 and 2015. Inset: Counts of ecoregions where…

6 years ago

Human Medicine Loading River Creatures With Dozens of Drugs

Spiders, such as the one pictured here, are found in riparian environments all over the world. They build their webs…

6 years ago