And since the core DDT chemical structure is extremely stable, DDT and its major breakdown products accumulate in the environment. Upon exposure, DDT and related compounds can magnify as they pass ...

For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles: How, exactly, ...

Censorship was lifted last week from one of the great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the ...