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Sex-Changing Chemicals Found in Potomac River
Amitabh Avasthi for National Geographic News
January 22, 2007
Ever since the discovery of gender-bending fish in the Potomac River, scientists have wondered what could be changing the sex of large numbers of fish in the waterway outside Washington, D.C.
They may not have to wonder much longer.
A recent U.S. government study has found large quantities of chemicals in the river and its tributaries—pollutants that are known to cause sex change in animals.
These chemicals, from both residential and industrial sources, may be linked to the unnatural fish, says the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report, which was released late last month. ..................
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Related to that is the story I heard about a growing "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico being linked to the runoff of lawn care chemicals flowing into it from the Mississippi.
we are just killing ourselves. i am at a loss here
i really am
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