Word: ddt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sells in pet shops for $1.20. "They're clean, they're cute and I love the sound they make," explains a proud local pest owner. Besides hissing, they also sizzle. Last week, Bangkok health authorities seized more than 200 of the roaches from pet shops, doused them with DDT and chucked them into a waste incinerator. Madagascar cockroaches were banned in Thailand last year, deemed a threat to national biosecurity. "They are an alien species that could damage the country's ecological system," explains Ampon Kittiampon of Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Pet owners have lost a friend...
...want to talk about potential risks. "No one in the industry doubts that nanotech is the most powerful tool we've ever had," he says. "But it's mad that we're charging ahead without any debate. People are nervous because scientists have made a lot of mistakes - DDT, CFCS, thalidomide. A mistake with nanotechnology could be very much more serious than anything we've seen before." Shand and Goldsmith have a point. As Time reported two weeks ago, ETC Group's paper included a review of available health research on nanoparticles. After studying the findings, Vyvyan Howard, pathology professor...
Excerpted in the New Yorker three months before it was published as a book, biologist Rachel Carson's eloquent, rigorous attack on the overuse of DDT and other pesticides--she called them "elixirs of death"--had already upset the chemical industry. Velsicol, maker of two top bug killers, threatened to sue the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, which stood firm but asked a toxicologist to recheck Carson's facts before it shipped Silent Spring to bookstores...
...Silent Spring "something I believed in so deeply that there was no other course; nothing that ever happened made me even consider turning back." When the book appeared, industry critics assailed "the hysterical woman," but it became an instant best seller with lasting impact. It spurred the banning of DDT in the U.S., the passage of major environmental laws and eventually a global treaty to phase out 12 pesticides known as "the dirty dozen." Carson died, at 56, of cancer less than two years after the book's publication, but if she were alive today, she would undoubtedly warn about...
...some U-Haul, indignant that there is no longer space to stand on the can-littered ground. How about that for an argument for kegs? They are more environmentally friendly. Kegs are a reusable resource, while aluminum cans clog our waterways. Aluminum cans could be the next DDT, and the Harvard community just wants to do its part to protect the Spotted Owl for our nation’s children...