By Elias Marat Over 27,000 barrels of the toxic insecticide DDT have been found so far on the seafloor about 12 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, in what could be one of the greatest examples of industrial pollution uncovered in recent memory. The…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Most people don’t know that the pesticide DDT is still with us. Most people don’t know that it was created by the company formerly known as Monsanto, now absorbed by Bayer. Did you know that DDT is still used to control mosquitoes in…
A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant women are linked to increased risk for autism in the children. An international research team led by investigators…
By Eric Durak There’s always a member of your family who you truly love. Who you wish you could spend more time with, and who treated you with so much love in return that you just couldn’t get enough of them. That was my Aunt…
By Arya Vrilya DDT-POLIO 1946-1955: Mass DDT spraying campaigns across the US to purportedly kill mosquitoes (fraudulently) blamed for carrying the polio virus and causing poliomyelitis paralysis. Mass DDT spraying campaign ended up CAUSING the poliomyelitis paralysis epidemic in the US in the 1950’s. In response,…
By Brandon Turbeville In a new study, a team of researchers set out to estimate the health cost of two chemicals in the European Union – pthalates and DDE. Both of these chemicals are known hormone disruptors and are found virtually everywhere in the Western…
