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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The documentary illustrates how DDT, although banned in the U.S. in the 1970s, continues to impact marine ecosystems and human health today. “DDT is the original ‘forever chemical’ before th ...

Male chicks treated with DDT had severely underdeveloped testes ... dangers posed by man-made pesticides that can accumulate in humans. Krimsky covers the Wingspread Work Session held in 1991 ...

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 ...