On AlterNet: ddt

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "ddt"

Why Is an Epidemic of Blood-Sucking Bed Bugs Sweeping the Nation?

Katherine Butler, EcoSalon. August 30, 2010.

It's confirmed: bed bugs are back. Here's what you can do about them.

Food in the U.S. Is Still Tainted with Chemicals That Were Banned Decades Ago

Emily Elert, Environmental Health News. April 22, 2010.

Thirty-eight years after DDT was banned, Americans still consume trace amounts of the infamous insecticide every day, along with more than 20 other banned chemicals.

Why Commonly Used Pesticides May Be To Blame for the Deaths of So Many Members of My Farming Family

Sandra Zellmer, Center for Progressive Reform. January 14, 2010.

We need to delve deeply into the potential link between a widely used chemical and the health of our food producers and their communities.

Too Fat to Serve: How Our Unhealthy Food System Is Undermining the Military

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. December 15, 2009.

Americans have become so overweight that a large percentage of young people no longer qualify for military service. How did we get here?

Is DDT Making a Comeback?

Kim Larsen, OnEarth Magazine. February 1, 2008.

In Africa, where malaria kills a million children a year, some are advocating the return of DDT. Are they right?

Who's Afraid of Rachel Carson? Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and Countless Others

Carl Pope, Huffington Post. May 29, 2007.

One hundred years after her birth and decades since her death, there is a cottage industry on the reactionary right to blame Carson for almost all of the world's ills.