For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead. For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead. Locals ...

A new study shows banned chemicals like DDT still contaminate many bird species, even in remote ocean regions far from people ...

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In the 1940s, the pesticide DDT exploded in popularity. Corporations and governments sprayed the chemical for decades, ignoring warnings that it might poison the environment and endanger human ...

At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

"Over increasingly large areas of the United States spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird ...

In her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," American biologist Rachel Carson revealed that DDT, a widely used pesticide at the time, was responsible for the mass death of birds, including the iconic bald eagle ...