A few years ago, the news hit screens that there was an enormous toxic waste dumping ground in the waters off the coast of Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of ...

The caustic waste that leaked from the barrels created an extreme environment similar to that of hydrothermal vents, colonized by specialized bacteria that thrive in such harsh conditions. Reading ...

Fresh analysis of decades-old barrels of toxic waste dumped off of the coast of Los Angeles, California, has solved the mystery of why some are surrounded by ghostly white halos on the seafloor. The ...

In 2020, haunting images of corroded metal barrels in the deep ocean off Los Angeles leapt into the public consciousness. Initially linked to the toxic pesticide DDT, some barrels were encircled by ...

Thousands of barrels filled with hazardous chemicals at a disposal site in rural Bullitt County represented what was at the time considered by federal officials as one of the worst illegal dumps in ...

In a downtown Tacoma parking lot behind a statue of a woman holding the city’s skyline in her hands sits an unusual sight. Since at least Sunday, 15 black barrels with neon-yellow toxic-waste symbols ...

Cleanup of millions of gallons of potentially toxic waste located near an aquifer in Tremont City that provides drinking water to tens of thousands of area residents is on track to begin next year, ...