The environmental legacy of Vietnam War herbicide weapons
Julia Poska | March 1, 2019 Forty-four years since the fall of Saigon, chemical weapons still exist in Vietnamese ecosystems. A new study from the University of Illinois and Iowa State University assessed the environmental impacts of one especially persistent chemical byproduct. "Agent Orange," banned in the U.S. since 1971, was a combination of two…
Source: iowaenvironmentalfocus.org