The United Kingdom is famous for its national parks: the distinctive natural beauty areas with overlapping hills, tables and middle lakes. But research has shown that the most protected rivers in England are full of pharmaceutical preparations.
In the first episode of a series of two parts, the correspondent of Biological Diversity tells Weston Madeleine Venley about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways, and how it can contribute to what the World Health Organization described as “silent epidemic”-antimicrobial resistance.