The federal government banned the use of DDT in the early 1970's, but more than 50 years later, researchers are still finding fish off the coast of Southern California that have the dangerous ...

The toxic pesticide DDT was dumped into the ocean off Southern California more than 50 years ago by the Montrose Chemical Corporation, and it is still contaminating fish and sediments in the ...

Scientists have found DDT in zooplankton and deep-sea fish off the coast of L.A., indicating the toxic chemical might be infiltrating the base of the food web.

The dumping of DDT was especially egregious and dangerous in Southern California. The dumping of DDT started in the 1930s, four decades before the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

This group will also assess the physical-chemical behavior of DDT-family compounds specific to the deep-sea environment of California’s offshore basins to determine whether DDT released into the ...

The toxic pesticide DDT was dumped into the ocean off Southern California more than 50 years ago, and it is still contaminating fish and sediments in the region decades later, according to researchers ...

DDT pollutants found in deep sea fish off Los Angeles coast Date: May 6, 2024 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: As the region reckons with its toxic history of offshore dumping ...

“Out of Plain Sight” is not a story with a cheerful ending. Or truly an ending at all. The documentary covers the discovery and investigation of DDT dumping off the coast of Southern California led by ...

Toxic pesticides dumped off Southern California’s coast decades ago are staying put — deep in adjacent ocean sediments and in the fish that reside in these habitats, a new study has found. Cu… ...

Environmental policies, including the DDT ban and water management decisions, have led to dying forests and catastrophic California wildfires.

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller. Yet this environmental catastrophe is real ...

California Off the coast of Southern California, DDT still found in fish 50 years after its ban New study from Scripps Institution of Oceanography looks at the dangerous pesticide spread over the ...