The bountiful fields of the U.S. are awash in atrazine . Some 36 million kilograms of the odorless, white powder are applied on farms to control grassy weeds. Some 225,000 kilograms of the herbicide fall with the rain each year, sometimes up to 1,000 kilometers from the source. All that atrazine may be having another effect: turning male frogs female. [More]
A Common Herbicide Turns Some Male Frogs into Females
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