There are vast quantities of man-made waste polluting our oceans and waterways—studies have found that fish are being poisoned by plastic microbeads and around 50 percent of sea turtles are ingesting our plastic waste . But the eels of Italy’s Sarno River have an additional concern; around 15 grams of cocaine flow down the highly polluted waterway every day—that’s around $1300-1800 worth. Scientists have been exposing European eels to low doses of the drug to see what the long term effects are, and while there’s no word on whether or not the slippery creatures become outrageously tedious to their friends, it’s clear the drug has some highly troublesome effects on the eels. Read the rest of Why we should worry about the cocaine problem facing Italian eels Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cocaine river , eels cocaine , eels pollution , environmental health , italy eels , polluted waterways , sarno river , water issues , water pollution
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Why we should worry about the cocaine problem facing Italian eels
