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Basics of Toxicology

Designing good ecotoxicology studies

17 Nov 2021November 17, 2021
Featured image: A conceptual model to explain how monarch butterflies could be exposed to insecticides used in Midwest agriculture. Figure obtained from Krishnan et al. (2021). As an insect toxicologist,…
Special Topics

Can exposure to insecticides impact monarch butterfly conservation?

24 Jun 2021December 29, 2021
Featured image: Monarch caterpillar photo was taken by Aaron Eckley at Iowa State University. This was originally published by Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium: https://monarch.ent.iastate.edu/can-exposure-insecticides-impact-monarch-butterfly-conservation. The question posed in the title…
NAS reports

Assessing risk to endangered species

5 Jan 2020February 24, 2022
Featured image: The Golden Toad was last recorded in 1989. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (obtained from Wikimedia Commons) The “Assessing Risk to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides”…
Recent News

How hormones in lakes harm aquatic life

13 May 2019November 3, 2019
This post was originally published in Envirobites Article: Kidd KA, Paterson MJ, Rennie MD, Podemski CL, Findlay DL, Blanchfield PJ, Liber K. 2014 Direct and indirect responses of a freshwater…
Recent News

How climate change can alter the toxicity of chemicals

10 Jan 2019November 3, 2019
This post was originally published in Envirobites Introduction We know climate change can affect our health in a multitude of ways— like by increasing rates of  many diseases and temperature-related…
Special Topics

Mapping the sensitivity of multiple species

3 Aug 2018March 13, 2020
Coffee, chocolates and alcohol..how I cherish them. But a dog probably doesn't feel the same -- all these three items are poisonous to them! And this difference is the basis…
Special Topics

Why we need a science-based approach to help the monarch butterflies

5 Jul 2018March 31, 2020
[This post was originally published in Students of SETAC Outreach. The work described in this article has now been published: https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/etc.4672 ] I will start by acknowledging this: I am…
Recent News

The impact of three insecticides on endangered species

15 Jun 2018December 29, 2021
Featured image: The location of critical habitats (areas essential for conservation of threatened and endangered species) in mainland United States. Photo Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. This post was…
Recent News

The environmental impact of the world’s most famous weed killer

11 May 2018December 29, 2021
This post was originally published in Envirobites Weed killers are sprayed (see figures 1 and 2) to control land weeds on agricultural fields, residential lawns and golf courses. They are…
Special Topics

Genetic resistance

24 Mar 2018December 29, 2021
Featured image: A monarch butterfly caterpillar eating milkweed plant. Milkweeds contain a toxin that only a few species, like monarchs, can consume safely. (Photo taken by me at Iowa State…
Basics of Toxicology

Tracking pollutants indirectly

2 Mar 2018December 29, 2021
Featured image: Sherlock Holmes - It is elementary, my dear scientist. Image source: Employee(s) of Universal Studios [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Imagine you are Sherlock Holmes. You have a…
Basics of Toxicology

Major environmental pollutants

21 Jan 2018December 11, 2021
Feature image: Smogs due to air pollutants were more common in the U.S. prior to passage of environmental laws (Photo source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) I use the…
Winner of the  General science posts and graphics category in the ScienceSeeker Awards 2019

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