The deep ocean off southern California has historically been a dumping ground for the pesticide DDT and other industrial wastes. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and collaborators are investigating ...
The hazardous materials that the long-defunct Montrose Chemical Corporation dumped off the Palos Verdes Peninsula went directly into the ocean rather than being contained in barrels as was ...
TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...
SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — An unprecedented expedition to map parts of Southern California’s deep-sea has uncovered World War II ...
First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean ...
For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine ...
Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It’s an annual event ...
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Consumer Reports recently conducted its most comprehensive review of pesticides in 59 US fruits and vegetables ...
While banned decades ago in industrialized countries, thousands of tons of the deadly pesticide DDT are still produced each year, causing health and environmental hazards in the U.S. and throughout ...