About 30 magpies were taken to a vet after showing signs of paralysis and weakness, with nine dying in care. The Environment Protection Authority found traces of two chemicals that have been banned ...

A Dededo water well containing enough dieldrin that regulators deem increased cancer risk "unacceptable" was shut down only in July, while a Mangilao well that fell into that range as recently as 2023 ...

A team of Emory University researchers has found a connection in laboratory mice between developmental exposure to the pesticide dieldrin (now banned from use) during gestation and lactation and an ...

Joint Region Marianas Rear Admiral Brett Mietus on Wednesday said two of nine tests of water sources on military installations on Guam returned with detectable levels of dieldrin that are 10 times ...

A new threat has emerged for contract workers digging up communication pits owned by Telstra, with the pits found to possibly contain the deadly banned pesticide dieldrin. The Communications Workers ...

SINCE 1949 a long series of trials of residual insecticides has been carried out by this Unit at Taveta, Kenya, using the trap-hut method originated by Thompson 1. In a number of the trials carried ...

EXPERIMENTAL work during the past two years has shown that the period of protection against sheep blowfly strike conferred by aldrin and dieldrin dips can vary from 12 to more than 40 weeks. In ...

Phyllida Brown discusses possible interactions between persistent organic pollutants (POPs), human body fat and diabetes (13 September, p 36). I learned of the connection in 1987. The Victorian ...