In the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles was a dumping ground for the nation's largest manufacturer of the pesticide DDT—a chemical now known to harm humans and wildlife. Due to ...

What was the historical use of DDT and how was it disposed of? Commercial use of the insecticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was banned in the United States ...

Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site, a report from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego State ...

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In internal memos made public recently, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that acid waste from ...

The toxic pesticide DDT was dumped into the ocean off Southern California more than 50 years ago by the Montrose Chemical Corporation, and it is still contaminating fish and sediments in the region ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate ...

“Out of Plain Sight” is not a story with a cheerful ending. Or truly an ending at all. The documentary covers the discovery and investigation of DDT dumping off the coast of Southern California led by ...

A research team led by scientists from Florida International University (FIU) published a study (“Effects of DDT on Amyloid Precursor Protein Levels and Amyloid Beta Pathology: Mechanistic Links to ...