Seventy years ago, all over the world, malaria was killing hundreds of thousands of people — until a powerful new weapon practically wiped out the mosquito-borne disease.

The hazardous materials that the long-defunct Montrose Chemical Corporation dumped off the Palos Verdes Peninsula went directly into the ocean rather than being contained in barrels as was previously ...

Chemicals related to, but different from, DDT could be off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula — and they could be even more dangerous the original insecticide. That’s according to scientists who ...

Deep sea fish are contaminated with the pesticide DDT and other related chemicals off the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast and beyond, according to a study released this week. The fish, as well as ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Because DDT accumulates in wildlife and magnifies up the food chain many raptor populations were nearly wiped out by its use. However, this bio-accumulation also means they have the potential to serve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Myctophids, also known as lanternfish, are considered a key connection between the deep ocean food web and marine life closer to ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate ...

A toxic agricultural insecticide banned four decades ago is still contaminating deep-sea fish and sediments off California’s southern coast, a new study has found ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Six years after the insect killer DDT was globally outlawed on grounds of environmental damage, two researchers say there are new reasons for doubting the chemical is harmful and ...