If there is a more obvious case of bad science, and its impact on human health, we d like to see it. Because it turns out that DDT, the evil chemical blamed by Rachel Carson in her 1962 book Silent ...

The environmental crises of the past often seem to disappear—have problems like acid rain and smog been solved?

A 54-year study from the Endocrine Society is the first to directly link breast cancer risk to in utero exposure to the chemical pesticide DDT. The study, conducted by the Public Health Institute in ...

Rachel Carson brought awareness to the harmful effects of pesticides including DDT when she published her book “Silent Spring ...

The U.S. government banned DDT more than 40 years ago, but a new study shows the potent insecticide is still haunting us. A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ...

In the 1940s, the pesticide DDT exploded in popularity. Corporations and governments sprayed the chemical for decades, ignoring warnings that it might poison the environment and endanger human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DDT, which first came into use as an insecticide in the 1930s, played a crucial role helping Allied forces protect themselves from ...

Women heavily exposed to the pesticide DDT during childhood are five times as likely to develop breast cancer, a new scientific study suggests. For decades, scientists have tried to determine whether ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Myctophids, also known as lanternfish, are considered a key connection between the deep ocean food web and marine life closer to ...

An employee of the Health Secretariat fumigates against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the spread of the Zika, Chikungunya and Dengue in Acapulco, Mexico, on Feb. 2, 2016. An employee of the ...