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News articles have suggested strange goings-on within waterways across the country.
At the Omaha Science Cafe on June 7, we learned how ’emerging contaminants’ can produce alarming effects at low levels, why this is different than what scientists have seen before, and perhaps most importantly, what can be done about it.
Alan Kolok, Ph.D., director of the Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and interim director of the Center for Environmental Health and Toxicology in the College of Public Health, presented “Biologically active compounds as pollutants: Strange goings-on in U.S. waterways.” |