When I was a little girl we lived in a small town in Massachusetts. Our house had been an eight-room colonial with a fireplace in every room. Before we moved in, several additions had been made to the ...

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 ...

Remember way back in the 1950s when a pesticide called DDT basically blanketed Europe and North America before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring exposed the fact that DDT is toxic to both humans and the ...

Previous research has shown that freshwater crustacean zooplankton such as Cladocera, otherwise known as water fleas, are sensitive to DDT. Joshua Kurek and colleagues wondered if elevated DDT use in ...