Due to contamination of some wells, members of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection met with homeowners in the DeLand County Club Estates to discuss their latest findings. The meeting ...

A Dededo water well containing enough dieldrin that regulators deem increased cancer risk "unacceptable" was shut down only in July, while a Mangilao well that fell into that range as recently as 2023 ...

About 30 magpies were taken to a vet after showing signs of paralysis and weakness, with nine dying in care. The Environment Protection Authority found traces of two chemicals that have been banned ...

This story was updated with statements from Guam Waterworks Authority legal counsel Teresa Rojas, and the headline was ...

For months, residents of the Country Club estates neighborhood near DeLand have worried why more than 100 private wells were poisoned by a banned insecticide. This week, an investigative team with the ...

When state health officials discovered last year more than 100 private wells near DeLand were poisoned with a banned pesticide, no one could explain why. Now, a state Department of Environmental ...

DeLAND, Fla. – Residents in DeLand were upset Tuesday night after a meeting in which the state presented a 120-page report on levels of water contamination revealed no new information. The state said ...

EXPERIMENTAL work during the past two years has shown that the period of protection against sheep blowfly strike conferred by aldrin and dieldrin dips can vary from 12 to more than 40 weeks. In ...

USING a fly bioassay technique, Kunze and Laug 1 reported the presence of toxicant in liver, kidney, abdominal fat and urine of rats fed dieldrin or aldrin. They observed that the toxicant in kidney ...