At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

Constant pressure from concerned scientists and public interest groups appears to be paying off for the people of Africa, as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has endorsed the ...

“The world is losing the war against malaria,” states the Times‘ unnamed editorial writer. “Malaria today kills more than a million people a year in Africa alone. One reason is that wealthy nations ...

It is also in trouble within the states. Arizona has already banned DDT spraying. Michigan recently imposed a similar ban after the FDA condemned some 700,000 coho salmon from Lake Michigan 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 ...

A new report which can be found here makes a devastating and overwhelming case that DDT spraying can save hundreds of thousands of lives every year and that UN and other NGO opposition to it is, as ...

Data released Thursday by the federal Northern Contaminants Program shows high levels of the banned pesticide DDT in some ...

Few people can say they helped save an American symbol. But Carol Yannacone, formerly of Yaphank and Patchogue, was not like most people. As a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund, she helped ...