When women take birth control pills, some of the hormones in the pills ends up in sewage effluent and waterways where it may be harming trout populations. Researchers now say that even short-term, low-level exposures to one such hormone, ethynylestradiol (EE2), can reduce a male trout’s fertility by half.
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