Word: apopka
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...participants began trading lab samples with one another and with a growing number of additional interested scientists. "We had gonads flying around the country," says Colborn. As the researchers compared notes, the evidence began to mount. During the mid-1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence of ovarian cells in male birds. Earlier...
...Apopka, Florida...