Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s ...

On a shelf next to my desk, I keep the books that shaped how I think about ... terrifying and compelling by outlining the ways that DDT, a highly toxic insecticide, was harming the natural world.

DDT came into common use around 1939 (though ... Carson spent much of 1958 to 1962 researching and writing the book that would be Silent Spring. She brought a rare trio of assets to this work ...

Ultimately, this led to a ban of DDT in the United States; many other countries followed suit. Decades later, with malaria on the rise, critics of Rachel Carson charge that she is to blame for ...

In Britainthe book “D.D.T. : the Synthetic Insecticide”(reviewed in Nature, 158, 359 ; 1946), by West and Campbell, was generally welcomed ; the authors have been themselves engaged in ...

The more entomologists study DDT, the new wonder insecticide, the more convinced they are that it may be a two-edged sword that harms as well as helps. To find out, they have lately taken to ...

More than 50 years after it was last used in New Brunswick, new research shows the insecticide DDT is still found in "alarming" rates in trout, potentially posing a danger to other animals and ...