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The number of brown trout in the Ruisseau des Marais in the canton of Geneva has fallen dramatically. The Ecotox Centre investigated the causes using a variety of ecotoxicological water and sediment tests and biomarkers.

Do you need to assess environmental concentrations of chemicals? The Ecotox Centre maintains an extensive database of environmental quality criteria (EQC) and other ecotoxicological threshold values, which we have now expanded to include new information.

Tire abrasion gets from the road into the adjacent soil and can affect the soil organisms living there. A new study shows that earthworms avoid soil that is heavily contaminated with tire particles. However, the particles had no negative effects on the survival and reproduction of the animals.