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Here's a very helpful piece by Dr. Heather Patisaul on the effects of atrazine, a household pesticide that's also used heavily in conventional corn production. In it, she describes, the dangers of atrazine, which have been known for nealry a decade now.

Laboratory and wildlife studies show that atrazine can cause reproductive and other organ abnormalities in vertebrates...The most persistent effects of atrazine occur when exposure occurs during development - rather than in adulthood - because the brain and reproductive organs are still forming. Effects of developmental exposure are less likely to be reversible.

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Around the world, amphibian populations are in decline, and scientists have not been able to figure out why. Now a study of leopard frogs in Pennsylvania has identified a possible culprit, and the ramifications are troubling, according to a Penn State ecologist.

Research conducted primarily at Penn State's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs in the summer of 2007 — described in a recently published article in the journal Nature — suggests that chemical pollution can increase often-deadly trematode (parasitic flatworm) infections in a declining amphibian species.

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