Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site, a report from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego State ...

A documentary about the DDT barrels discarded off the local coastline will be among the offerings during the the 14th annual San Pedro Film Festival, which will take place from Nov. 6 to 9. Each year, ...

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 as a ...

Although DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, was banned 50 years ago, its toxic — and insidious — legacy continues to haunt the marine ecosystem off the ...

A toxic agricultural insecticide banned four decades ago is still contaminating deep-sea fish and sediments off California’s southern coast, a new study has found ...

SAN DIEGO — 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 ...

Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site, a report from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego State ...