Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

After World War II, DDT was applied to farms, buildings and gardens throughout the United States. However, it also had drawbacks. It accumulated in mother's milk to levels where it could deliver a ...

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 ...

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 ...