When Christopher Tubbs joined an ambitious multinational effort to save California condors from the brink of extinction, he knew the odds of success were long. There were wind turbines that could ...
A high volume of discarded military munitions dating back to World War II were found during a seafloor survey off the Palos Verdes Peninsula, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...
For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles: How, exactly, ...
In 2021, as part of the National Science Foundation-funded California Current Ecosystem-Long Term Ecological Research program, chemical oceanographer Lihini Aluwhihare was able to opportunistically ...
SAN DIEGO, California, January 7, 2024 (ENS) – Tons of munitions, DDT and petrochemicals were dumped for decades in deep ocean basins off the coast of Los Angeles, scientists from three California ...
Chemicals related to, but different from, DDT could be off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula — and they could be even more dangerous the original insecticide. That’s according to scientists who ...
Toxic pesticides dumped off Southern California’s coast decades ago are staying put — deep in adjacent ocean sediments and in the fish that reside in these ...