Pollution from the production of antidepressant ... Italy's University of Tuscia investigated how long-term exposure to pharmaceutical pollutants, which they said are "widespread in aquatic ...

More than 200 rivers around the world have been analysed to reveal the water quality and what lurks beneath the surface.

Medications degrade over time, meaning they may not work as intended once they reach and pass their expiry date.

We've just, we've just abused them for so long. Paul Whitehouse visits the River Clyde in Glasgow to learn about pharmaceutical pollution and its damaging effects. The River Clyde flows through ...

As the news media and recent research has highlighted, this pharmaceutical pollution (coupled with the drugs that pass through our digestive systems and also make their way through sewage treatment ...

A study of more than 1,000 sites in 258 rivers on all seven continents finds that pharmaceutical pollution is a pervasive problem worldwide. The work, published today (February 15) in PNAS, surveyed ...

“When you really start to dig deeper and see where the proliferation is coming from, you start to notice that it’s on the pollution of the pharmaceutical factories,” she explains.

Chemicals of emerging concern; industrial pollution; wastewater treatment; environmental impact of PFAS ("forever chemicals"), PCBs, PBDEs (flame retardants), pesticides, nanomaterials, antimicrobials ...

That allows poorly treated effluents, chemical compounds and pharmaceutical pollution to enter aquatic ecosystems. That's bad news for wildlife and can disrupt ecosystems. The preferred method for ...