Marine researchers in the Pacific say they’ve unearthed an underwater dump of as many as 25,000 barrels — an estimated 350 to 700 tons — of toxic DDT in what they believe to be a long-forgotten waste ...

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 State ...

Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane was once considered a miracle chemical, sprayed everywhere to combat malaria and typhus and to control insects in agriculture and homes. DDT was used so widely after ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate ...

When it was first used on a wide scale, in the 1940s, DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was known as “the miracle pesticide.” It was cheap, easy to apply ...

A computer simulation of the environmental fate of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) has revealed that substantial quantities of the pesticide are still being ...

A toxic agricultural insecticide banned four decades ago is still contaminating deep-sea fish and sediments off California’s southern coast, a new study has found ...