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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 the waters off the coast of Southern California. The report said that a team from University of Cal...

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 two autonomous underwater vehicles (they look like small submarines) into the ocean, approximately ...

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 their raw metals by young men and children working on poisoned waste dumps. In a joint investigation ...

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 to a news release from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San ...

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 the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, also known as the Ocean Dumping Act, was passed...