The U.S. government banned DDT more than 40 years ago, but a new study shows the potent insecticide is still haunting us. A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ...

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By the 1950s and 1960s, biologists across North America were reporting an unusual pattern in the nests of bald eagles, ...

In the 1940s, the pesticide DDT exploded in popularity. Corporations and governments sprayed the chemical for decades, ignoring warnings that it might poison the environment and endanger human ...

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The North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council is embarking on a study to see if chemicals, such as DDT and glyphosate, are affecting ...

Slightly more than four decades ago, the U.S. banned the use of the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichlororethane (thankfully, DDT, for short) which must certainly ...

The United States banned DDT in 1972 and environmental groups are trying to outlaw the pesticide worldwide. But in developing countries, it continues to be a cost-effective way to combat malaria, a ...

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Significant traces of the harmful pesticide DDT, or dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, are still present in the sediment of Canadian lakes, nearly 50 years after the last drop was sprayed, a new study ...

Women who were exposed before birth in the 1960s to high levels of commercially used DDT, a pesticide that has been instrumental in eradicating malaria in regions of the world, have nearly four times ...

When Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” first sounded the alarm on DDT and its devastating effects on birds and fish, our understanding of how this pesticide affected humans was just beginning. Chemicals ...