!!! The DDT dumpsite in the ocean turned out to be MUCH BIGGER than expected. After surveying a swath of seafloor larger than *all of San Francisco,* scientists told me they still could not find an end to the dumping ground. It just kept going... https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-04-26/ddt-waste-barrels-off-la-coast-shock-california-scientists">https://www.latimes.com/environme...
Hearing the researchers at @Scripps_Ocean talk about how much data they had to process washttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŸ€Ż" title="Explodierender Kopf" aria-label="Emoji: Explodierender Kopf"> Trying to count each individual barrel/data point on the map, they told me, was like counting stars in the Milky Way https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-04-26/ddt-waste-barrels-off-la-coast-shock-california-scientists">https://www.latimes.com/environme...
The ocean science community has mobilized with remarkable speed since our first report in October, which looked at old records and shipping logs that documented this history of dumping so much DDT waste into the sea https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground/">https://www.latimes.com/projects/...
DDT, even though it was banned in 1972, continues to haunt us in so many ways. A recent study found that the consequences of DDT can be passed down multiple generations. Young women today face greater health risks because their grandmothers were exposed https://twitter.com/RosannaXia/status/1382366455497314306?s=20">https://twitter.com/RosannaXi...
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