Your Weekend Bump Habit Is Giving The Fish In The River An Existential Crisis

Saturday night's lines are in the water. So is everything else we have ever put in our bodies, from antidepressants to contraceptive hormones to enough caffeine to suggest that the Thames is essentially a cold brew. The fish are living in it, absorbing it, and behaving in ways that nobody fully anticipated. A new study has tracked exactly what happens to salmon swimming through substance-polluted water, and the results are stranger than the headline suggests.