Not since DDT was banned more than 50 years ago have independent scientists made a more compelling case for the urgent need ...
The deep ocean off southern California has historically been a dumping ground for the pesticide DDT and other industrial wastes. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and collaborators are investigating ...
The hazardous materials that the long-defunct Montrose Chemical Corporation dumped off the Palos Verdes Peninsula went directly into the ocean rather than being contained in barrels as was ...
Annie the peregrine falcon is UC Berkeley’s very own celebrity mom, with fans around the world — but 50 years ago, her ...
TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...
First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean ...
For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine ...
Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. How did it get started?
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover the intersection of art and travel. Anyone who’s ever made the ferry ride from California’s mainland across the San Pedro ...
Earth Day started in 1970 as consciousness raising. The 2024 version is a mix of woke and political correctness and at war ...
Hope can fuel the action needed to keep tackling the climate crisis. Experts say tremendous progress has already been made.