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Endocrine Disruptors & Climate Change:
An Ecological Disaster?



Many wildlife populations are threatened by endocrine disrupting chemicals being released into the environment. These effects, compounded with the strains imposed on ecosystems by climate change, arouse fear of pending ecological disaster. Or perhaps ecological disaster has already begun to unfold as a result of these two anthropogenic stressors? You can explore this website to learn about the environmental consequences of climate change and endocrine disrupting chemicals on ecological systems.

 



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Earth: http://www.msss.com/earth/earth.gif, Smokestacks: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/blogphotos/Blog_Power_Plant_Smokestack.jpg
Endocrine disruptors: www.igb-berlin.de, Warming Earth: blog.kir.com/archives/climate2.jpg, Polar Bears: www.igb-berlin.de Ecology:pinker.wjh.harvard.edu, Gull: www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz, Frog: www.skidmore.edu