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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 »