Drugs have dangerously polluted the world's rivers, scientists warn

Pharmaceutical pollution poses 'global threat to human and environmental health', major study findsHumanity's drugs have polluted rivers across the entire world and pose "a global threat to environmental and human health", according to the most comprehensive study to date.Pharmaceuticals and other biologically active compounds used by humans are known to harm wildlife and antibiotics in the environment drive up the risk of resistance to the drugs, one of the greatest threats to humanity. Continue reading...