In 1971 two people in North Hollywood started eating DDT pills every day. That’s right, they willingly swallowed 10mg of poison every single day for three months. In front of witnesses. From the ...

Rosanna Xia's new documentary, Out of Plain Sight, explores the haunting legacy of toxic chemicals and their long-lasting ...

For those who would like to use DDT but are afraid of being poisoned by it, the current Mosquito News (published by the American Mosquito Control Association) has a word of reassurance. According to ...

More than 50 years ago, scientists at the Permanente Foundation Hospital in Oakland started a simple experiment: When a pregnant woman would come in for routine maternal care, they were asked to give ...

The new USMCA free trade agreement is worse than NAFTA. It has more chapters and once again, is a step toward a regional government — North American Union — like the European Union. Among the 2,325 ...

When Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” first sounded the alarm on DDT and its devastating effects on birds and fish, our understanding of how this pesticide affected humans was just beginning. Chemicals ...

The Zika virus outbreak makes it clearer than ever: It’s time to end the ban on DDT — a ban that was never sensible in the first place, but now is downright unjustifiable. The Centers for Disease ...

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(Beyond Pesticides, April 25, 2007) Public health and environmental activists call on the world community today to respect life, protect children, stop hazardous pesticide use, including DDT, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – St. Patrick’s Day can be ...

RE Sheila Jones' letter (BEN, Sept 26) do these pro-fluoride people not yet realise that children do not drink water, and I very much doubt if many drink tea or coffee. They most certainly drink ...

THE World Health Organisation, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, the UN environmental programme and its development programme, USAID, and almost all the other international representatives of the ...