A remarkable evolutionary find

The organisation Californians for Alternatives to Toxics (cats) has sued the state's department of pesticide regulation (dpr) for not following the California Environmental Quality Act. The

Commonly used herbicide is changing gender of US frogs

Increasing deformities in frogs attributed to pesticide exposure, which makes them susceptible to parasite infection

Owing to the poor response to optional animal dissection, the CBSE has banned animal dissection in secondary schools with immediate effect

Three more frogs discovered in India

Amphibians in India are besieged by numerous threats

Cane toads (Bufo marinus) introduced in Australia in the 1930s to control the sugarcane beetle are poised to invade the Australian Kakadu National Park, a world heritage site. The toads are poisonous

Pesticides are killing frogs and other amphibian species in the US

Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), HCH isomers (HCHs), chlordane compounds (CHLs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) were determined in sediment, soil, whole body homogenates of resident and migratory birds and their prey items (including fish, green mussel, snail, earthworm, crabs, prawn, lizard and frogs), bird eggs and bats collected from southern India

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