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Scientists Reveal Major DDT Pollution Along Los Angeles Coast - Palos Verdes, CA - Researchers share survey findings from a DDT toxic dump site off the coast of Southern California near Rancho Palos Verdes and Catalina.

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Ocean Scientist Calls Extent of DDT Dumping in Pacific ‘Staggering’ May 05, 2021 In this 2011 image provided by the University of California Santa Barbara, a barrel sits on the seafloor near the coast of Catalina Island, California. (David Valentine/UC Santa Barbara / RV Jason, via AP) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:05:15 0:00 Southern California’s Catalina Island is a popular destination for nature lovers. It is reachable by boat from Los Angeles and San Di...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography has published a report indicating that a massive DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) dumping site was recently discovered at the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Los Angeles. Underwater drones equipped with sonar technology mapped out 36,000 acres of seafloor between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island, which led them to the discovery that at least 27,000 barrels of DDT are nested there. Scientists also found an excess of 100,000 debris objects ...

Technology Helps Determine Extent of Seafloor Dumpsite NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—An area encompassing more than 36,000 acres containing more than 27,000 “barrel-like” images lying on the seafloor, stretching between Catalina Island and the coast off Los Angeles, has been documented by marine scientists. The discovery was made during an expedition led by University of California–San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Although widely reported in the media that the barrels contain ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to World War II has long been suspected. The 27,345 “barrel-like" objects were captured in high-resolution images as part of a study by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They mapped mor...

2021-05-01 22:05:59 GMT2021-05-02 06:05:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Julia Pierrepont III LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Xinhua) -- In the latest chapter in a decades-old pollution scandal that spawned one of the worst toxic waste sites in America, ocean scientists said early this week that they had found approximately 27,000 barrels on the ocean floor in Los Angeless coastal waters that were believed to contain DDT, the toxic pesticide banned in the United States in 1972. Prompted by widespr...

California’s legacy of DDT waste: underwater dump site uncovers a toxic history Aaron Cantu in Los Angeles © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Valentine/AP The discovery of tens of thousands of underwater barrels containing what scientists believe to be chemical waste has raised alarm and reopened scrutiny into a history of toxic dumping that persisted off the California coast into the 1970s. A team of scientists announced this week that they had found more than 25...

The expedition was the first of its kind to lay bare the scale of the offshore dumping that occurred for decades, and its size “was a surprise to everyone who has worked with the data and sailed at sea”, said Eric Terrill, the chief scientist of the expedition and director of the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at a press conference about the findings. “As we started to run the survey and realized what we were beginning to observe on the seafloo...