Dr. Aneesh Bose joins us in this insightful episode to discuss the growing problem of pharmaceutical pollution and its potential impact on ecosystems worldwide. With pharmaceutical drugs increasingly detected in wildlife tissues, Dr. Bose highlights the urgent need to understand the effects of these pollutants on natural ecosystems.

This episode dives into Dr. Bose's innovative research involving larval odonates (dragonfly and damselfly nymphs). His team investigated the effects of exposure to two pharmaceuticals, cetirizine and citalopram, and their combination on predator-prey interactions.

Dr. Bose shares fascinating findings, which showed that exposure to both compounds increased dragonfly activity and influenced their predation success and efficiency in complex ways. He explains that while citalopram exposure reduced predation e ...