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In the fall of 2020, a story broke on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. It featured a striking image of a barrel sitting on the floor of the ocean, emitting an eerie, phosphorescent glow. Over ...

So the implication that you engage in "recreational" drug use is offensive, but the illegal acquisition of DDT seems like the best idea evar? I don't even. I like to use DDT in the preparation of my ...

This story is adapted from How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT, by Elena Conis. Bird lovers and ornithologists had reason to celebrate at the dawn of the new millennium.

When Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” first sounded the alarm on DDT and its devastating effects on birds and fish, our understanding of how this pesticide affected humans was just beginning. Chemicals ...

» Will man’s extensive use of DDT upset the balance of nature in our forests, fields, arid streams? FROM ancient times diseases conveyed by insects have been the main cause of casualties in military ...

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 ...

Even where mosquito populations have developed resistance to DDT, it is more effective (and less problematic) than alternative chemicals. The reason is that mosquitoes are repelled by the DDT on house ...