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Scientists find 27K suspected barrels of toxic DDT on ocean floor near Los Angeles ​ By IANS | ​ 4 Views   Los Angeles: Photo taken on July 4, 2020 shows the closed Santa Monica beach in Los Angeles County, the United States. (Xinhua/IANS). Image Source: IANS News Los Angeles, April 30 : Scientists found 27,000 barrel-like objects on the seafloor about 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) offshore Los Angeles, local CBS news channel reported, saying it confirmed the existence of a DDT dump site in...

A waste barrel dumped off the Los Angeles coast. Image: DAVID VALENTINE, UC SANTA BARBARA / AUV SENTRY 2021-04-30 14:47:09 UTC A sprawling dumpsite off the Los Angeles coast, littered with barrels of waste, had been mostly hidden from the public eye for over half a century. Now, marine scientists revealed the field of submerged waste, some of it likely toxic. They detected around 27,000 barrels. Over two weeks in March, scientists with NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography dropped...

Tonnes of toxic waste collected from British municipal dumps is being sent illegally to Africa in flagrant breach of this country’s obligation to ensure its rapidly growing mountain of defunct televisions, computers and gadgets are disposed of safely. Hundreds of thousands of discarded items, which under British law must be dismantled or recycled by specialist contractors, are being packaged into cargo containers and shipped to countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, where they are stripped of t...

Toxic chemicals are strewn along the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles, expedition finds By Madeline Holcombe, Cheri Mossburg and Braden Walker, CNN Updated 4:41 AM ET, Wed April 28, 2021 The mission found more than 27,000 containers spread over the sea floor off the coast of Los Angeles. (CNN)A recent expedition mapping the seafloor between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island found tens of thousands of items likely polluting the ocean with the toxic chemical DDT for decades, according...

Apr 27, 2021 10:52 PM EDT (Photo : Photo by Matt Hardy on Unsplash ) Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, collected 27,345 "barrel-like" photographs. They surveyed over 36,000 acres of the seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and the Los Angeles peninsula, in an area where elevated levels of the toxic chemical had previously been discovered in sediments and the environment. DDT Dumping (Photo : icame on Pixabay) Before 1972, when t...

Scientists find over 25K barrels possibly containing DDT dumped off LA coast David Valentine/AP In this 2011 image provided by the University of California Santa Barbara, a barrel sits on the seafloor near the coast of Catalina Island, Calif. Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island. (David Valentine/UC Santa Barbara / RV Jason, via AP) By: The A...

Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 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" images were captured by researchers at…

25,000 Barrels Possibly Laced With DDT Are Found Off California Coast One researcher said the number of discarded drums far exceeded his expectations. “It was hard to wrap my head around the density of targets,” he said. Credit...David Valentine/U.C. Santa Barbara/RV Jason April 28, 2021 In 2011, a curious marine scientist captured a series of photos of the ocean floor that left him disturbed. Using a sea drone, he documented dozens of corroding industrial barrels, scattered 12 miles off th...

© David Valentine/UC Santa Barbara / RV Jason via AP In this 2011 image provided by the University of California Santa Barbara, a barrel sits on the seafloor near the coast of Catalina Island, Calif. Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island. Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped o...

April 26, 2021 - 8:04 PM US marks slowest population growth since the Depression WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. population growth has slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said Monday, as Americans continued their march to the South and West and one-time engines of growth, New York and California, lost political influence. Altogether, the U.S. population rose to 331,449,281 last year, the Census Bureau said, a 7.4% increase that was the second slow...