The chemicals you use in your daily life, which end up running off your garden or flowing down the sink, can have serious consequences for the wildlife that live in our rivers, lakes and oceans.
Those are just some of the issues that hundreds of scientists will be discussing when they gather for an environmental toxicology and chemistry conference on the Gold Coast this week.
Studying the toxic chemicals that end up in our environment and what they do to the organisms that live there, the researchers are working to measure and reduce the human impact on our ecosystems.
The conference group is comprised of members of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, an International scientific society dedicated to the study, analysis and solution of problems related to contaminants and other stressors in the environment.
Several researchers from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute and Environmental Futures Research Institute will present their research on
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