After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean ...

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, ...

The Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site, an area of contaminated sediment, faces renewed concerns over chemicals dumped into the ocean. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: I knew that ...

Recent revelations in the Southern California News Group about the way DDT was dumped directly into the San Pedro Bay have caused some to wonder at how such a thing could be allowed to happen, knowing ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate ...

It was the miracle pesticide of the age, sprayed on everything imaginable, from crops, livestock and pets to screen windows, mattresses and blankets. After World War II, the Corn Belt embraced the ...

New Year’s Day 2003 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s ban on the pesticide DDT. With malaria striking youngsters in the Washington, DC suburbs last summer, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In internal memos made public recently, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that acid waste from ...

To the editor: I knew that thousands of barrels likely containing DDT had been casually dumped off the coast of California and Catalina Island decades ago, and it still shocks and appalls me. But to ...

After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean ...