Seventy years ago, all over the world, malaria was killing hundreds of thousands of people — until a powerful new weapon practically wiped out the mosquito-borne disease.

For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles: How, exactly, ...

A toxic agricultural insecticide banned four decades ago is still contaminating deep-sea fish and sediments off California’s southern coast, a new study has found ...

The dictionary states that DDT is a powerful insecticide that is restricted by law due to the damaging environmental effects it causes. If this is true, and if the "shoe fits," you should not wear it; ...

As the region reckons with its toxic history of offshore dumping, the new findings raise troubling questions about whether the banned pesticide remains a threat to wildlife and human health In the ...

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 ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations announced a plan Wednesday to rid the world by around 2020 of DDT, an outlawed toxic crop pesticide still used to spray homes to fight malaria-spreading mosquitoes.

A DISTURBING DISCOVERY: In 2011, UCSB scientist David Valentine discovered a massive DDT dumping ground in the waters off Catalina Island. Today, as he prepares to launch a new marine science major at ...

CLAIM: Polio stopped spreading when the pesticide DDT stopped being used, not when vaccines for the virus were introduced. THE FACTS: Polio and its side effects, including paralysis, have been widely ...