An epidemic may have gone unnoticed--DDT use in US linked to premature births in the 1960's
The study, which appears in the current issue of the international medical...journal Lancet, was carried out by scientists at the National Institute of...Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health and...Human Development, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and...the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....... The scientists said they found elevated...Bacteria That Gorge On Rotting Waste Can Break Down DDT
.Chicken and cow manure, old newspapers, straw and wood chips can be used to.clean up land contaminated with dangerous chlorinated pesticides such as DDT,.according to Canadian scientists at the life sciences firm AstraZeneca.. . Finding a practical way to clean up contaminated land is tricky. Digging.up soil and moving it elsewhere is no longer acceptable, sealing it in a.landfill site i....DDT and other chemicals left by decades of pesticide .manufacturing may be spreading from the offshore sediments .of the Palos Verdes Shelf (PVS), a University of Southern .California Sea Grant study suggests.. .The level of DDT detectable in PVS sediments has declined .steadily since production of the insecticide was banned, .and marine scientists have believed the decline was primarily .due t...... ... .........From evidence of lingering DDT damage, to questions about artificial wetlands as...habitat, to the uses of a dynamic ecosystem evaluation and monitoring tool, USGS...scientists will present a variety of wildlife research findings at the annual...meeting of The Wildlife Society at the Buffalo Convention Center, Buffalo, N.Y.,...Sept. 22-26, 1998. ... ...... Native Animals Snub Ex...