In 1972, on the basis of toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the EPA banned virtually all uses of DDT, a pesticide once widely deployed to kill disease-carrying insects.

The insecticide is commonly used by landscaping ... That’s no longer the case. DDT was banned, and those birds have recovered,” Leitz said. “But we’ve learned recently that North America ...

A study by the Government's Pesticides Safety Directorate found the banned chemical DDT in a high proportion of samples of Anchor butter sold in the UK. Other chemicals, mainly fungicides ...

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

A study by the Government's Pesticides Safety Directorate found the banned chemical DDT in a high proportion of samples of Anchor butter sold in the UK. Other chemicals, mainly fungicides ...

But it was banned in the 1970s after factory workers in Virginia producing the molecule exhibited "alarming neurological damage", said Atmos. Other countries outlawed the pesticide, but France ...

As a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund, she helped ban the insecticide DDT, starting in Suffolk County. It was particularly deadly to bald eagles. And in 1999, President Bill Clinton ...

In its most recent report on the state of local birds, for example, the Connecticut Audubon Society warned that neonicotinoids are “the new DDT” — a reference to the chemical that was ...