DDT consists of hydrogen, chlorine and carbon, so it doesn’t quite fit the acronym, Valentine explained at the panel discussion. “Then I realized I solved this problem early on,” he said. “It was ...

When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her ... applied the insecticide DDT to the interior surfaces of rural homes and entire properties where malaria was reportedly prevalent.

In 1972, on the basis of toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the EPA banned virtually all uses of DDT, a pesticide once widely deployed to kill disease-carrying insects.

Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site, a report from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego ...

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

As a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund, she helped ban the insecticide DDT, starting in Suffolk County. It was particularly deadly to bald eagles. And in 1999, President Bill Clinton ...

and that DDT, though scarce in the water, becomes concentrated as it works its way up the food chain -- from plankton to fish to birds and so on. Her message that humans cannot totally control ...

TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...