Fifty Years Later, DDT Lingers in Lake Ecosystems (IMAGE)

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Fifty Years Later, DDT Lingers in Lake Ecosystems

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Five remote lakes in New Brunswick, Canada, still contain DDT in their sediments, decades after the insecticide was sprayed onto nearby trees.

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Joshua Kurek

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