Word: ddt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and has been sounding ever since. We live, environmentalists warn, in a world laced with dangerous chemicals, from powerful pesticides to toxic industrial wastes like dioxin and PCBs. Despite periodic waves of public concern and efforts at government regulation (the 1972 banning of DDT in the U.S., for example), the chemicals are still found in small but measurable amounts in air, water, soil -- and our own tissues. Many scientists have long argued that even tiny doses of pollutants can cause cancer in humans, but the contention is hotly disputed. Other researchers maintain that traces...
...Indeed, the law is currently up for reauthorization in Congress, and property owners and developers are working hard to have it weakened. The law is unfair to their business interests, they say. Besides, they insist, the eagle's comeback has much more to do with the 1972 banning of DDT, which weakened the shells of birds' eggs, and with increased public awareness of the eagle's plight than with the law itself...
...Contrary to earlier findings, a large-scale study shows no association between the pesticide DDT and breast cancer...
...DDT from Abroad...
Though banned in the U.S. more than 20 years ago, the pesticide DDT is still accumulating here. Yale researchers who studied New England forests say winds deliver DDT from countries as remote as India that continue...