Johanna Wilde
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or聽DDT, soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. DDT is an insecticide introduced in 1942. It has now been banned for more than 50 years, but it still remains in relatively high concentrations in soils around the world.
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