Rachel Carson
They are trying to stop the spread of DDT
the evidence that scientist had to ban DDT was that birds were getting extinct in particular cites and in the 1960's there was a problem with child development. scientist believed that DDT was doing this
Paul Muller won the medicine and physiology Nobel Prize in 1948 for discovering the insecticidal use of DDT.
DDT is an insecticide.
DDT is a pesticide.
DDT is dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane; biomagnification of DDT in some organisms is possible.
Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist and author, was most responsible for alerting the public to the risks involved in DDT spraying. Her book "Silent Spring," published in 1962, documented the harmful impacts of pesticides on the environment and raised awareness about the dangers of DDT to wildlife and human health.
DDT is dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane.
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is a strong insecticide.
DDT hasn't an odor.
DDT is not soluble in water.
some scientist work in the great lakes like fisher men's and they tell the scientist so what ever they try to take the sediments and DDT out so the bald eagles and others won't die.