Measuring pollution with biomarkers

As pollution is becoming more common, it is important to know the impact on ecosystems. This can be analyzed using so-called biomarkers. For example, pollution can be indirectly assessed by measuring how animals change due to pollutants. Learn more:

https://medium.com/the-environment/how-animals-can-tell-us-whether-and-how-badly-we-polluted-the-environment-21755bd5e599

A marker test can be done to measure the amount of pollution (credit: Aleksandra Gigowska on Shutterstock)