I was vastly amused by all the hullabaloo caused by the discovery of a small can of DDT at Winchester Hall ("Package clears Winchester," Oct. 2). As any World War II veteran can attest, small cans of ...
Hyderabad: Following the report ‘Tolichowki fights mosquito menace’ published in these columns on Thursday, GHMC staff descended on the Shah Hatim lake and Balkapur Nala and took measures to control ...
If there is a more obvious case of bad science, and its impact on human health, we d like to see it. Because it turns out that DDT, the evil chemical blamed by Rachel Carson in her 1962 book Silent ...
THE World Health Organisation, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, the UN environmental programme and its development programme, USAID, and almost all the other international representatives of the ...
An expert team yesterday started the process of shipping 500 tonnes of Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane, a banned toxic pesticide, to France for destruction. The pesticide had been stored at the ...
First, actress Ashley Judd urged Americans to buy bed nets for pregnant women and new mothers. Then American Idol finalist Melinda Doolittle and first lady Laura Bush travelled to Zambia to help ...
Every year, more than a half-a-billion people suffer agonising pains and fevers because of malaria, a disease that is entirely preventable and curable. In Africa, someone — normally a child — dies ...