As aquatic animals with long lives and few predators, freshwater turtles are living environmental monitors for PFAS bioaccumulation, Beale says. Surprisingly, he says, even the animals from the ...

The modeling predicted rapid bioaccumulation of microplastics across the food web, with the most microplastics building up in the endangered penguins, then moving down the food web to barracuda ...

Bioaccumulation occurs when toxins build up - or accumulate - in a food chain. The animals at the top of the food chain are affected most severely. DDT is an insecticide that was widely used in ...

Carson wasn’t the first to realize how bioaccumulation and biomagnification work, but her work as an author and advocate helped spread the awareness to the general public and policy makers, which led ...