The toxic pesticide DDT was dumped into the ocean off Southern California more than 50 years ago by the Montrose Chemical ...

While banned decades ago in industrialized countries, thousands of tons of the deadly pesticide DDT are still produced each year, causing health and environmental hazards in the U.S. and throughout ...

For the first time, malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Tanzania have genetically mutated to survive the long-banned pesticide DDT ...

Scripps research indicates DDT residues persist in fish and sediments near historical dumping sites off California's coast.

New modeling can help predict areas with high contaminants and aid officials in creating better seafood safety advisories.

Neonicotinoids coat nearly all the corn and soybean seeds available for planting. Agrichemical companies have designed it ...

Analyses of pesticide residues in a wide range of marine organisms from the coastal waters of Sweden show that there is a marked contamination in the Baltic. There are signs of an increase in ...

Insecticides The increasing resistance of flies and mosquitoes to DDT is causing private and public concern. It is unlikely, however, that we will have to return to sticky paper and fly swatters ...

A mosquito said to be a major vector for malaria infections has been found to be developing a resistance to the insecticide DDT. Scientists at the University of Glasgow have uncovered the ...

Toxic pesticides dumped off Southern California’s coast decades ago are staying put — deep in adjacent ocean sediments and in ...