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 ...

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.

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 ...

In a world dominated with concerns over microplastics and "forever chemicals," DDT persists as an unresolved problem — long after the pesticide was banned in 1972 following Rachel Carson's book ...

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 ...

March may come in like a lion, but around here it goes out on the crooked wings of an Osprey.