Scientists have found DDT in zooplankton and deep-sea fish off the coast of L.A., indicating the toxic chemical might be ...
a chemical oceanographer whose lab at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography helped ...
A toxic agricultural insecticide banned four decades ago is still contaminating deep-sea fish and sediments off California’s ...
Deep ocean sentiments and fish contain DDT, said researchers, leaving the possibility the toxic chemical has found its way ...
Between 1948 and 1961, barges laden with industrial waste, including high concentrations of once-ubiquitous agricultural ...
In the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles was a dumping ground for the nation's largest manufacturer of ...
As the region reckons with its toxic history of offshore dumping off the California coast, new findings raise troubling questions about whether the banned pesticide remains a threat to wildlife and ...
Research has since confirmed DDT contamination and resultant health problems in local sea lions, dolphins, bottom-feeding fish and coastal California condors, the authors noted. What remains ...
Scores of emaciated brown pelicans, too weak to fly, have been found on Southern California beaches in the last month ...
The study found that deep-sea fish and sediments near the Catalina Island dump site are still laden with DDT-related ...