Scientists make shocking WWII-era discovery off California coast: 'It was a big surprise for us'
"Our expectations were we'd find fragments of barrels along all these debris lines."
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"Our expectations were we'd find fragments of barrels along all these debris lines."
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The findings are from the La Jolla institute's second seafloor survey and are part of a larger project to assess the impact of DDT and other pollutants on the environment.
From Environment News Service / Jan. 7, 2024 Tons of munitions, DDT and petrochemicals were dumped for decades in deep ocean basins off the coast of Los Angeles, scientists from three California universities are discovering. This dumping is known to have happened from the 1940s until 1972, when the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act,…
A new study from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography performed a seafloor survey that found a large amount of discarded military munitions.