Frogs Help Us Understand Human Effects

Frogs and toads have lived on earth for more than 100-million-years. Theysurvived whatever extinguished the dinosaurs, yet in our age, they seem tobe vanishing. Reporting for the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, Mary Losure(low-sure) examines this scientific mystery, in the first of a three-partseries. It’s a detective story in which the victims are frogs, notpeople…but people may have a big stake in the mystery’s solution.Amphibians are sensitive indicators of environmental problems. If we canfind out what’s killing frogs, we may also learn if it will someday harm us:

Deformed Frogs Spell Trouble for Humans

In the years since the first reports about the disappearance of frogsworldwide, many researchers have warned the plight of amphibians may be anearly sign of environmental problems that could affect humans. More recentreports of DEFORMED frogs have added to these concerns. Mary Losure(low-sure) has the final report in our series for the Great Lakes RadioConsortium: