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 ...

In the past DDT was seen as the chemical most likely to end the scourge of malaria and help control agricultural pests. In time, its hazards became better known. But despite worldwide bans on its use, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

It was the miracle pesticide of the age, sprayed on everything imaginable, from crops, livestock and pets to screen windows, mattresses and blankets. After World War II, the Corn Belt embraced the ...

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 ...

Does DDT upset the balance of nature? Yes, but that’s nothing to be alarmed about, says one of Britain’s foremost authorities on insect physiology. The authority, who has the nervous name of Dr.