A WWF report finds sufficient scientific evidence of hazards to human health and wildlife to justify a global ban on the production and use of DDT. Although banned decades ago in North America because ...

It has a stable chemical structure that makes it practically insoluble in water and very resistant to biodegradation in soil: in one case, 40 per cent of the DDT sprayed on an American orchard was ...

It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the mosquito and malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of ...

Women exposed in the womb to high levels of the pesticide DDT have a nearly fourfold increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to new results of research conducted on California ...

SAN DIEGO — The federal government banned the use of DDT in the early 1970's, but more than 50 years later, researchers are still finding fish off the coast of Southern California that have the ...

A new study reveals a mechanism linking the pesticide DDT to Alzheimer's disease. A new study led by researchers from Florida International University (FIU) reveals a mechanism linking the ...