Atrazine

• A Common Herbicide Turns Some Male Frogs into Females. One of the mostly widely used weed killers, atrazine, may be disrupting male frogs’ sexual development…even reversing it. – Scientific American
• Atrazine, a Toxic Pesticide – Ramsey, NJ Patch
• Atrazine Feminizes Male Frogs – East Bay Express
• Atrazine reproductive issues reviewed – UPI.com
• California Adds Atrazine to List of Toxic Chemicals, But No Ban – KQED
• Chemical Affecting Frogs’ Sexuality – Los Angeles Times
• Common weedkiller turns male frogs into females – Reuters
• Debating Just How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass – The New York Times
• Farm Chemicals and Frogs – PBS
• Frogs: Weed killer creates real Mr. Moms – Science News
• Herbicide atrazine spurs reproductive problems in many creatures, report finds — ScienceDaily
• Hermaphrodite Frogs Found in Suburban Ponds – The New York Times
• LGBTF? Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females – Fox News
• Male Frogs May Be Turning Female Thanks to Estrogen in Suburban Waste – Newsweek
• More Frog Trouble- Herbicides may emasculate wild males – Science News
• Mutant Frogs Linked To Weed Killer – CBS News
• Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females – EurekAlert!
• Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females – Live Science
• Report: Herbicide atrazine spurs reproductive problems in many creatures – EurekAlert!
• Researcher: Pesticide ‘Castrates’ Male Frogs – NPR
• Sex-Changing Herbicide Makes Amphibians Sick, Too – WIRED
• Study says herbicide causes frogs’ sex change – SF Gate
• Study: Weedkiller in waterways can change frogs’ sex traits – Washington Post
• The Weed Killer Atrazine May Be Harming Your Health – KCET
• The Weed Killer That Turns Male Frogs into Female Frogs Could Be in Your Tap Water – HuffPost
• Toxic herbicide found in many Texans’ drinking water – cbs19.tv
• Weed killer ‘castrates’ male frogs, study says – CNN.com
• Weed Killer Deforms Frogs In Sex Organs, Study Finds – The New York Times
• Weed Killer Makes Male Frogs Lay Eggs. One of the most common weed-killers in the United States can transform male frogs into fully functional females, a new study says. – National Geographic

• Atrazine: 7 Harmful Effects On Humans – AndrogenHacker
• Atrazine: A Harmful Weedkiller Taints Tap Water for Millions in U.S. – Environmental Working Group
• “Chemical Castration”- White Genocide and Male Extinction in Rhetoric of Endocrine Disruption – NiCHE
• Exposing Syngenta’s Toxic Best-Selling Weed Killer in Your Water – Atrazine – Natural Society
• If Common Chemicals Harm Frogs and Rats, What Are They Doing to Your Children? – From the Trenches World Report
• Millions Of American Men Exposed To Feminizing Chemical In Their Water – NewsPunch
• Nation’s Most Commonly Used Corn Herbicide, Atrazine, Linked to Reproductive Mutations – Organic Consumers Association
• Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females – Berkeley News
• Poisoning the Well: atrazine is scary, and it’s everywhere – NRDC
• Popular weed killer demasculinizes frogs, disrupts their sexual development, UC Berkeley study shows – Berkeley News

Whistleblower Target of Attacks

• A Valuable Reputation. After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him. – The New Yorker
• Internal Docs Expose Syngenta: Wire Tapping Scientist for Discrediting a Pesticide Poison – Atrazine – Natural Society
• Syngenta Harassed the Scientist Who Exposed Risks of its Herbicide Atrazine – Union of Concerned Scientists
• The Frog of War. When biologist Tyrone Hayes discovered that a top-selling herbicide messes with sex hormones, its manufacturer went into battle mode. Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the history of science. – Mother Jones

EPA Approved

• EPA approves drift-prone, toxic industrial weed killer on basis that all farmers will follow instruction label – Consumer Affairs
• EPA Finds Atrazine Likely Harming Most Species of Plants, Animals in U.S – Organic Consumers Association
• EPA Weakens Safeguards for Weed Killer Atrazine, Linked to Birth Defects   – Civil Eats
• Is the EPA Being Pressured on Atrazine? New Findings of Environmental Concerns about Syngenta’s Crop Chemical Removed from EPA Site – PR Watch
• Lawsuit Challenges EPA Reapproval of Endocrine-Disrupting Pesticide Atrazine – Center for Food Safety

Presentations

Maps

• 2019 Pesticide Use Maps – Atrazine – USGS

Database

• EWG Tap Water Database – EWG
• Review of Atrazine in Tap Water – EWG

Lawsuit

• RURAL COALITION, PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK NORTH AMERICA, BEYOND PESTICIDES, CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, and CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY V. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, and ANDREW WHEELER, in his official capacity as Administraton

Reports

• Atrazine Tox Profile – ATSDR

Academic Papers

• Atrazine Exposure and Reproductive Dysfunction through the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) Axis – PMC – NIH

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  Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) – PNAS

• Atrazine induces penis abnormalities including hypospadias in mice. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease – Sci-Hub.se
• Demasculinization and feminization of male gonads by atrazine- Consistent effects across vertebrate classes. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Sci-Hub.se
• Feminization of male frogs in the wild – Nature – Sci-Hub.se
• Pesticides in the Nation’s Streams and Ground Water, 1992–2001 – Occurrence and Distribution in Streams and Ground Water – USGS
• The herbicide atrazine affects sperm quality and the expression of antioxidant and spermatogenesis genes in zebrafish testes – Elsevier – Sci-Hub.se

Website

• Atrazine News