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DDT found in deep-sea fish raises food web concerns

The key to understanding how concerned we should be about the hundreds of tons of DDT dumped on the shores of Los Angeles for several years has been one question: How exactly did this decades-old pesticide—a toxic chemical spread across the seafloor 3,000 feet underwater—keep reentering the food web? Now, in a highly anticipated study,… Read More »

A massive dump of World War II-era munitions has been discovered off the coast of Los Angeles

It’s not just toxic chemical waste and mysterious barrels polluting the seabed off the coast of Los Angeles. Oceanographers have discovered what now appears to be a massive military weapons dump. Scientists have found scores of discarded ammunition boxes, smoke buoys and depth charges hidden 3,000 feet underwater, as part of an unprecedented effort to… Read More »