Publications

The chemicals to which life is asked to make its adjustments are no longer the minerals washed out of the rocks and carried in rivers to sea; they are the synthetic creations of man´s inventive mind, brewed in his laboratories, and having no counterparts in nature

Silent Spring (1962)

Pharmaceuticals and other urban contaminants threaten Amazonian freshwater ecosystems

Rico, A., de Oliveira, R., de Souza Nunes, G.S., Rizzi, C., Villa, S., López-Heras, I., Vighi, M. and Waichman, A.V., 2021. Pharmaceuticals and other urban contaminants threaten Amazonian freshwater ecosystems. Environment International, 155, p.106702.

Wide-scope screening of pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and their metabolites in the Amazon River

Fabregat-Safont, D., Ibáñez, M., Bijlsma, L., Hernández, F., Waichman, A.V., de Oliveira, R. and Rico, A., 2021. Wide-scope screening of pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and their metabolites in the Amazon River. Water Research, p.117251.