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, ...
The discovery was made by researchers with the University of California San Diego’s Scripps ... As AP reports, the United States stopped using DDT in 1972 as well. DDT, which stands for ...
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 ...
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 ...
California condors will receive a vaccine for a deadly strain of avian influenza that threatens the already critically ...
Decades of underinvestment in schools, culture battles over bilingual education, and stark income inequality have made California the least literate state in the nation, as Capitol Weekly reported.
The population was nearly wiped out by hunting during the California Gold Rush, as well as poisoning from toxic pesticide DDT and lead ammunition. In the 1980s, all 22 California condors left in ...
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While banned decades ago in industrialized countries, thousands of tons of the deadly pesticide DDT are still produced each year, causing health and environmental hazards in the U.S. and throughout ...
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 ...
