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Peter Foreshaw Brookes says economic conditions and smartphone usage (and its effects on coupling) are more likely causes The global drop in fertility has a number of causes, but rising biological infertility (infecundity) is not one (Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds, 26 April). Recent reports of a paper by Shanna Swan, the writer of Spermageddon, and others have claimed the paper shows that exposure to pollutants has been driving down biological fertility

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