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• endocerine disrupter

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/endocrine/index_en.htm This website featured a background on endocrine disrupters, the next steps, a schedule and an oversight on the EDSTAC report.

• ecotoxicology

http://www.epa.gov/ecotox/ This website gave a detailed definition. Mentioned that the aquatic species are now included in the ecotox database. Overview of freshwater and marine toxcicity test.

• ecological risk assesment

http://www.aehs.com/journals/humanandecojournal/ This website gave background information on human and ecological risk factors. It gave a short overview of the definition

• bioaccumulation

http://toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/bioaccumulation.html This website gave a essay type definition of this term. It also included definitions of terms such as methylmercury and hydrophobicity and bioconcentration.

• emerging disease

http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec8000ec23 This website included an explanation of diseases such as HIV Drug-resistant Strains as Epidemiologic Sentinels and Detecting Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Mutants

• pollution

http://pollution.big.com/ This website mentioned Air pollution, flue gas disulferization, and AAF International. Also, things we can do to help with air pollution.

• biological amplification

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/102/ecosystem.html This website gave the 3 page definition and explation of this term. One way it was worded was Biological magnification is the tendency of pollutants to become concentrated in successive trophic levels. Often, this is to the detriment of the organisms in which these materials concentrate, since the pollutants are often toxic.

• carcinogen

http://www.scorecard.org/health-effects/explanation.tcl?short_hazard_name=cancer This site gave links to the following subjects relating to carcinogens, References used to compile the list of carcinogens List of recognized carcinogens List of suspected carcinogens

• environmental stressor

http://www.dnr.state.ga.us/dnr/environ/plans_files/plans/ This website was an outline wich included, Sources and types of stressors and NPDES permitted wastewater discharges.

• red tides

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/redtide.htm This website explained the most common pigment in algea, red. This red pigment is then eaten by shellfish and can prove to be harmful even fatal to humans!