Pharmaceutical pollution in waterways is changing animal behavior. Exposure to an antianxiety drug is affecting migrating Atlantic salmon, according to a new study.

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“Pharmaceutical pollution is this sort of invisible ... Yet that bolder behavior didn’t reduce the number of fish that reached the sea. The clobazam-drugged salmon swam through one of the ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

Clobazam, a benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety, has been found to affect Atlantic salmon in similar ways to humans.

Researchers studying pharmaceutical pollution tracked ... in any group reached the sea. But there was a difference in how quickly smolts navigated the dams, with fish in the anti-anxiety group ...

We followed the entire river-to-sea ... affects fish ecology and evolution. In future work, he said, “I do plan to consider the potential for behavioral effects from pharmaceutical pollution.” ...