While emerging evidence suggests pesticides can be toxic to the mix of microorganisms in the digestive system, a new study is ...

Bob DeLuca, president of Group for the East End, talks about the ospreys’ journey back from the brink of extinction.

Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don't pay for the ...

Many pier fishermen in Southern California still eat DDT-contaminated fish, while government efforts struggle to address the ...

Earlier in June, wildlife enthusiasts were excited over a pair of young bald eagles that flew out of their nest for the first ...

By tapping into museum archives, it’s possible to fill in the missing chapters of a region’s pollution history, says researcher Shane DuBay.

DDT Linked to Fourfold Increase in Breast Cancer Risk. Nearly everyone in the 1950s and 1960s was exposed to the pesticide, and its use continues in Africa.

Today, DDT is predominantly used in low-income households, raising concerns over unequal exposure. Improper use may contaminate agricultural produce, posing safety risks and trade barriers.

But DDT, though it was not the most commonly used pesticide in the spray program, has persisted in soil and in New Brunswick's aquatic environment. ...

More than 50 years after it was last used in New Brunswick, new research shows the insecticide DDT is still found in “alarming” rates in trout in the province’s lakes, potentially posing a ...

Using available data on where DDT was sprayed, samples were taken from five lakes in the northern central parts of New Brunswick where the insecticide was known to be applied and the fish was analyzed ...

Kurek said the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment suggest that for DDT 14 nanograms per gram is acceptable, and his team’s research had fish that were 10 times higher than the CCME ...