Atlantic salmon exposed to a common anti-anxiety drug migrate faster, according to new research. That's not necessarily a good thing ...

Many marine and land animals are harmed by plastic pollution. Here are some animals that are most affected by plastic ...

“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 ...

The study 'Pharmaceutical pollution influences river-to-sea migration in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)' has been published in Science.

Pharmaceutical pollution can significantly affect wild animal behaviour, including speeding up salmon migration.

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.” ...

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

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 ...