Birth control pills have negative effects on aquatic ecosystem, finds study
India's Down To Earth Magazine reports on the latest findings from IISD-ELA.
India's Down To Earth Magazine reports on the latest findings from IISD-ELA.
Nick Martin takes an in-depth look at IISD-ELA functioning in an educational capacity. He was there at the site this past summer with some students from Winnipeg's St. John’s-Ravenscourt School and their teacher, Matt Henderson.
"Richard Bridle, a project researcher at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), said in a session on government assistance, “the subsidies for electricity in the region in one year equal the required investments in renewable energy until 2020.”"
A recent study at IISD-ELA finds that estrogen found a commonly used birth control pill can have negative effects on fish populations in lakes.
The Guardian takes a look at a special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, which includes a study conducted at IISD-ELA into the effects of estrogen on fish wildlife populations.
French-language article. "Des chercheurs pressent les gouvernements d'améliorer les systèmes de traitement des eaux usées après avoir découvert que la présence de composantes de la pilule contraceptive dans des lacs avait eu pour effet de déstabiliser des écosystèmes."