University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Rebecca Klaper
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Lots of things end up in Great Lakes that shouldn’t be there.
Plastic bottles and microbeads, fertilizer runoff from farm fields, and invasive species to name a few.
Now, add to that list prescription drugs. Researchers are increasingly worried about how chemicals from prescription medication could be impacting aquatic wildlife.
Current State talks with Rebecca Klaper, a professor of freshwater science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
This segment was produced by WKAR’s Current State and is reproduced with permission.