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12/20/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Agricultural fungicides found to kill the organisms responsible for leaf litter decomposition in streams and rivers

While it’s no secret that agrochemicals are harmful to the environment, scientists are truly just beginning to ascertain the full scope of Big Ag’s detrimental effects. But as a researcher from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) has shown in his doctoral thesis, agrochemicals like fungicides can have disastrous effects on the environment — including […]

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