The federal government banned the use of DDT in the early 1970's, but more than 50 years later, researchers are still finding ...

Before then, the Montrose Chemical Company legally manufactured DDT and used the Torrance, California, sewer system to dump its tainted waste water, a practice also legal at the time. For more ...

A pesticide sprayed on New Brunswick forests more than 55 years ago can still be found in some fish in the province, ...

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 ...

The California entomologists have found that in too heavy or improperly timed doses DDT may be harmful to plants (especially tomatoes), animals and people (if they eat heavily sprayed fruit or ...

The insecticide was used to control spruce budworm, which mainly feeds on balsam fir and white spruce, and is a natural pest ...

Team analyzed brook trout, lake sediments and aquatic invertebrates from lakes in forests treated with DDT in the 1950s and ...

Five of the seven lakes Kurek studied were in areas where DDT was sprayed: Upsalquitch, Goodwin, California, Sinclair and the Middle Peaked Mountain. The remaining two — Anthony and Bennett — were ...

More than 50 years after it was last used in New Brunswick, new research shows the insecticide DDT is still found in "alarming" rates in trout, potentially posing a danger to other animals and ...