Rachel Carson highlighted the environmental consequences of our actions in a way that had never been done before.

In 1972, on the basis of toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the EPA banned virtually all uses of DDT, a pesticide once widely deployed to kill disease-carrying insects.

Kurek said the conditions at the bottom of lakes, wetlands, and ponds are ideal for preserving DDT and studies have shown the ...

Nothing is an unmixed blessing”. This underlines the dual nature of human innovations ~ how they can solve our problems but ...

By any measure, the revival of the bald eagle stands as one of the great environmental triumphs in conservation history. In ...

A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s with the use of the pesticide dichloro ...

Today, as firefighters battle a wildfire on Bear Mountain outside of Jim Thorpe, the nation marks the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. Just two days ago residents were ready to flee their homes if they ...

A study by the Government's Pesticides Safety Directorate found the banned chemical DDT in a high proportion of samples of Anchor butter sold in the UK. Other chemicals, mainly fungicides ...

Due to the genetic uniformity within bed bug infestations resulting from extensive inbreeding, one specimen per sample is generally representative of that population. But Booth wanted to make sure ...