One mysterious chemical that is likely connected to the DDT dumping in California was 56 times more abundant in coastal condors and 148 times more abundant in California dolphins. "This DDT story, ...
Before then, the Montrose Chemical Company legally manufactured DDT and used the Torrance, California, sewer system to dump its tainted waste water, a practice also legal at the time. For more ...
While Imperial County could be sitting on enough lithium to meet a third of the world’s demand, locals have never reaped the ...
The Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment have compiled frequently asked questions about the ...
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 ...
Clawing back from extinction, the small fox's future hangs in the balance, challenged by lack of genetic diversity ...
Described as a ‘botanical wonderland’, the rocky ridge is home to more than 30 species of rare plants and Indigenous village ...
In 1972, on the basis of toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the EPA banned virtually all uses of DDT, a pesticide once widely deployed to kill disease-carrying insects.
A study published in Nature Communications finds that climate-induced thawing of permafrost (a ground that remains completely ...
Before then, the Montrose Chemical Company legally manufactured DDT and used the Torrance, California, sewer system to dump its tainted waste water, a practice also legal at the time. For more ...
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 ...
