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Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT's slow decay

Mosquito populations have increased as much as ten-fold over the past five decades in New York, New Jersey, and California, according to long-term datasets from mosquito monitoring programs. The ... read more

Growing Mosquito Populations Linked to Urbanization, Residual Decay of DDT in the Environment

A new study finds the main drivers of these changes were the gradual waning of DDT concentrations in the environment and increased urbanization ... recent increases in mosquito populations appear to ... read more

Mosquito population growth in US driven by decay of DDT, urbanization

New research suggests a growth in mosquito populations in the United States has been driven by the decay of residual DDT in the environment and urbanization ... in mosquito populations appear to be ... read more

State of the World 2003

Chapter 3: Linking Population, Women, and Biodiversity, Mia MacDonald & Danielle Nierenberg The interplay among population growth ... less toxic than DDT. Sleeping under a bednet radically reduces the ... read more

Chapter 7 - Health issues related to drainage water management

Silting, uncontrolled aquatic weed growth, slow water flow or stagnant pools associated ... the negative consequences of rapid and uncontrolled urbanization are also contributing to the creation of ... read more

Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times

Even DDT, which clearly does pose health risks to those unsafely exposed, has never been definitively linked to cancer ... Famine became rarer. The population growth rate was cut in half, thanks ... read more

Models, Tools, and Databases for Land and Waste Management Research

BIOCHLOR includes three different model types: Solute transport without decay Solute transport with ... VELMA is being linked to a variety of other models – fish and wildlife populations, air quality, ... read more

Anthropogenic impacts on mosquito populations in North America over the past century

Here, we show that anthropogenic chemical use (DDT; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) and increasing urbanization were the strongest drivers of changes in mosquito ... the decay in residual ... read more

Continental mosquito with 'vector' potential found breeding in UK after 60 year absence

A species of mosquito has been discovered breeding in the UK that has not been seen in the country since 1945. Populations of the ... (2012, February 8). Continental mosquito with 'vector' potential ... read more

Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization, DDT's slow decay

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161206110247.htm>. University of California - Santa Cruz. (2016, December 6). Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization, DDT's slow decay: Rising ... read more