From National Geographic:

When antidepressant pills get flushed down the drain, they do more than create happier sewers.

Scientists in Erie, Pennsylvania, have found that minute concentrations of fluoxetine, the active ingredient in Prozac, are killing off microbial populations in the Great Lakes.

Traces of antidepressants such as Prozac have been found in both drinking and recreational water supplies throughout the world, in quantities experts say are too dilute to affect humans but which have been found to damage the reproductive systems of mollusks and may even affect the brains of animals like fish. Read more.

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🚨🚨New episode alert!🚨🚨 Teach Me About the Great Lakes episode 101: Why Don't You Do Stories like This More Often?Meet Dave Spratt from the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources who takes journalists around the Great Lakes to get them into the environments they’re reporting on and to talk with scientists and researchers. Then we meet one of those reporters: Lester Graham from Michigan Public who has been doing award-winning work about the environment for decades.Listen in at the link in bio.

🚨🚨New episode alert!🚨🚨 Teach Me About the Great Lakes episode 101: Why Don`t You Do Stories like This More Often?

Meet Dave Spratt from the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources who takes journalists around the Great Lakes to get them into the environments they’re reporting on and to talk with scientists and researchers. Then we meet one of those reporters: Lester Graham from Michigan Public who has been doing award-winning work about the environment for decades.

Listen in at the link in bio.
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