NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 24: An Indian man collects water as he bathes in an industrial waste-foam polluted section of the Yamuna River, on the outskirts of New Delhi on May 24, 2013 in New Delhi, India ...

As pharmaceutical consumption has risen in the past couple of decades, pollution from the companies that manufacture these drugs has drastically risen. A study recently published in the Lancet ...

Pharmaceuticals are polluting waterways on all five continents — doing so at potentially toxic concentrations in more than a quarter of 258 global rivers sampled in a new, multi-institutional study.

Pollution in the world’s waterways is not a new problem, but new research details the extent to which pharmaceutical pollutants have infiltrated rivers around the world. Published Wednesday in ...

Environmental pollution from pharmaceuticals is increasing, drawing increasing attention from scientists and other communities. Addressing this challenge will require a coordinated global approach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some fish are still in the aquariums at Zoo Zajac in Duisburg. Pollution from pharmaceuticals has the potential to affect the ...

In the largest study of its kind to date, a team of international researchers has investigated how pharmaceutical pollution affects the behaviour and migration of Atlantic salmon. The study, led by ...

Dr. Marcus Michelangeli conducting the field study in Sweden's River Dal. Credit: Michael Bertram In the largest study of its kind to date, a team of international researchers has investigated how ...

Although pharmaceuticals can improve health and quality of life, their mass production and use have led to pharmaceutical pollutants in the soil and water. These environmentally persistent pollutants ...

Traces of pharmaceutical drugs are finding their way into waterways around the world. A new study in the journal Science suggests that this kind of pollution can mess with salmon migration in somewhat ...

India, May 23 -- Pharmaceutical compounds detected in urban rats were linked to changing risks of zoonotic infections, ...