School of Biological Sciences
Natural Resources: depletion, pollution and toxicology
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Natural Resources: depletion, pollution and toxicology[ BIOL202 Home | Aquabiology at Liverpool ] |
PCBs and Dioxins are important toxic chemicals because they are persistent and toxic. They are implicated in causing Endocrine Disruption. You should understand what they are and what the implications of their dispersal into the environment are. You should be able understand what has happened in significant cases where these substances have been involved in environmental pollution incidents.
Background info on PCBs
Background info on Dioxins
USEPA on Dioxin
Informative American Activist
site ejnet
Be aware that substances such as PCBs and Dioxins are often known as - Persistent Organic Pollutants (Swedish Article on POPS)
More background on PCBs plus info on the PCB impact in the Baltic Sea
USEPA Hudson River Homepage -
Includes up to date links as things change
There's a lot of it but this report presents the
plan for cleaning the river together with its costs
Student prepared Website
which does a good concise job in explaining the background to the problem in the
Hudson
Videos demonstrating how to dredge
sediment from a river in an environmentally sound manner
Fox River Activist Site
Impact on Killer Whales
Impact of Environmental Contamination by PCBs & Dioxins on Finnish Fishermen eating fatty fish from the Baltic
Impact
of PCBs on Babies from Gt Lakes Region in North America
Impact of PCBs
on Babies from Mothers living near the Hudson Bay in the Arctic, Baltic Sea etc