Alistair Boxall
@alistairboxall
Professor of Environment Science exploring the impacts of pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants on the natural environment and human health.
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05-05-2015 17:44:47
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Pharmaceutical pollution in national parks ⚠️ Together with River Waveney Trust, we contributed data to alarming research by University of York & The Rivers Trust. Findings show many waterways in our parks are contaminated with drugs including antidepressants, painkillers and antibiotics.
Exciting work from University of Portsmouth & Lancaster University challenging the hypothesis that the industrial compound pyridine was responsible for a mass mortality event that killed large numbers of crustaceans along 70 km of English coastline! #ESAdvances ⬇ doi.org/10.1039/D4VA00…
🚨#Pharmaceutical #chemicals have been found in rivers flowing through national parks across England! 📣 Wildlife and Countryside Link said: “Rapid measures are needed to make rivers safer for people and wildlife” Read more 👉 buff.ly/472dLFq
I had a wonderful day with Pippa Chapman (the NERC Freshwater Quality Programme Champion) collecting this week's ECOMIX river samples. It provided a great opportunity to update Pippa on the progress we have made on the project.
We're taking our message to cities in England and Wales 💪 Have you seen our billboards? 👀 Thanks to Ocean Outdoor for awarding us advertising space 💚 End water pollution in #NationalParks 👉 cnp.org.uk/support/campai…
One of our champions for the Freshwater Quality Programme Pippa Chapman went out to see the progress made by team ECOMIX collecting river samples. Find out more about this project water.leeds.ac.uk/fwq-programme/…