The soaring number of gender-bending chemicals in the environment has disturbing fertility implications for humans and wildlife, scientists are warning.
They say wild animals are being ‘feminised’ by a host of common man-made pollutants which mimic the female sex hormone oestrogen and escape into seas, rivers, the earth and air when waste is disposed of.
The chemicals? -? found in food packaging, cleaning products, plastics, sewage and paint? -? cause genital deformities, reduce sperm count and even turn males into females.