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

The more entomologists study DDT, the new wonder insecticide, the more convinced they are that it may be a two-edged sword that harms as well as helps. To find out, they have lately taken to ...

DDT came into common use around 1939 (though invented in 1874), especially for insect control for the army during World War II. Two of Carson's colleagues had written of the dangers of DDT in the ...

One team of scientists, in an attempt to map and scan the seafloor for DDT-related waste, discovered instead a multitude of discarded military explosives from the World War II era. Another team ...

better known as DDT. The synthetic insecticide had been revered for its ability to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes during World War II — in fact, its discovery led to a Nobel Prize. But the ...

TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...