"New Brunswick ran arguably one of the largest aerial spray programs of DDT ever undertaken on planet Earth," said Kurek, lead author of a study published in the journal PLOS One this week 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 ...
When DDT was first sprayed on large areas to kill insect pests, some naturalists issued grisly warnings that the poison would “upset the balance of nature” causing all sorts of unpredictable havoc. It ...