The environment and the organisms living in it are continuously exposed to a wide range of chemicals. From chlorine-based solutions that remove bacteria from water to pesticides that treat and protect ...

The concentrations of many historically used, and now widely banned, pesticides and other toxic chemicals -- called legacy contaminants -- can become magnified in an animal that eats contaminated food ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 4 (2014), pp. 1181-1192 (12 pages) Trophic models based on nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ15N) have been shown to predict changes in mercury (Hg) ...

Researchers have produced a groundbreaking study of how nanoparticles are able to biomagnify in a simple microbial food chain. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has produced ...