Pollution seems to be having more adverse effects than once thought and with each passing day one is finding new ways and means in which it destroys life and causes harm both to humans and animals.

However, this is something that will concern all the guys across the planet. New findings suggest that if water pollution continues at the rate it is going and if the rivers continue to become a cocktail of chemicals, then fertility problems in guys could only start growing!

It’s no new fact that the female sex hormone estrogen found in contraceptive pills, is causing the feminization of fish and in some cases can lead to male fish changing sex. Researchers now believe that Anti-androgens, which are found in a number of medicines including cancer treatment drugs and pesticides used in agriculture, could have the same impact on humans – though not to an extent where it could change our sex. Found in most of the English rivers, they could have a serious effect on fertility of men as they have tendency to block the male hormone.

While this will not be the singular source for growing infertility in men, a long list of chemicals that were previously though to be ‘not too harmful’ could be causing more damage than before, so better get yourself some clean water guys … Clean Water!

Source: TheTelegraph
An amazing image by crazscout

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough” said Mark Twain and many of us took his advice.

Aberdeen University scientists discovered that a by-product from whisky waste (residue) is capable of cleaning contaminated soil and polluted water from chlorines, heavy metals or pesticides.

Fort William Whisky Distilery – barrels lined up outside – by Justin Dawkins

Dr Graeme Paton, Professor Ken Killham and Dr Leigh Cassidy named it DRAM (Device for the Remediation and Attenuation of Multiple polluatnts) and had “commercial reasons” not to disclose the recipe. They did say something very interesting though. Apparently not only whisky by-products are going to be used because the technology they’ve patented is able to work with other by-products from the food and beverage industry.

Nowadays cleaning processes are not only very expensive but also very slow and here is where the DRAM changes things. It’s cheaper and way faster. Tests so far revealed that the new technology has been very successful fighting pollution so I guess the Irish saying I’ve heard, is true. “What butter and whiskey won’t cure, there is no cure for”. Right?

via EnvironmentalGraffiti