From the early 1970s until 1993, chlordecone, an "extremely toxic and persistent" pesticide, was used in banana plantations ...

An author and educator detailed the long-term effects of chlordecone, a toxic insecticide used for decades in the French ...

An Air France flight was forced to make a U-turn back to the airport where it originally took off two hours into its journey ...

PARIS (AP) — An appeals court in Paris upheld Tuesday a ruling that found the French government guilty of wrongful negligence for using a banned pesticide in the French Caribbean islands of ...

The Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe conjure images of sun ... Years later, residents of the two French territories continue to suffer. The islands have some of the highest rates ...

under an exemption granted by the French government. France’s government has estimated that more than 90% of adults in both Caribbean territories were exposed to Chlordecone. The islands have a ...