Women who lived in villages sprayed with DDT to reduce malaria gave birth to 33 per cent more baby boys with urogenital birth defects (UGBD) between 2004 and 2006 than women in unsprayed villages, ...

Who says there’s never any good news? After more than 30 years and tens of millions dead — mostly children — the World Health Organization has ended its ban on DDT. DDT is the most effective ...

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 ...

A WWF report finds sufficient scientific evidence of hazards to human health and wildlife to justify a global ban on the production and use of DDT. Although banned decades ago in North America because ...

When DDT was first sprayed on large areas to kill insect pests, some naturalists issued grisly warnings that the poison would “upset the balance of nature” causing all sorts of unpredictable havoc. It ...

DDT went from wonder chemical to environmental pariah right after the publication of Rachel Carson’s “Secret Spring” in 1962, so defending it must be like accepting a job as Charles Manson’s PR guy.

South Africa’s war on malaria is damaging the health of some children because the DDT insecticide used to kill the parasite is affecting their fathers’ sperm, a study found. The decade-long research ...

Witness how DDT was once widely used across Columbus, Georgia, long before growing environmental concerns led to its nationwide ban. Judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit, ...

DDT, the wonder insecticide (TIME, June 12), was last week credited with the most crushing blitz of its career. Three months ago Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture decided to try the deadly ...

A contingent of nomadic people arrived in Duluth in a truck, establishing a camp just outside the city limits. Police Chief E.H. Barber ordered officers to arrest anyone attempting to tell fortunes on ...