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Mike Wehner
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In a discovery that underscores just how bad of a job humans do when it comes to preserving any environment they're a part of, scientists spotted tens of thousands of barrels of what appears to be a toxic chemical dumped off the coast of Southern California. The barrels, which appear to have been dumped sometime before the early 1970s, are slowly rotting away on the seafloor, threatening to spill their deadly contents into the surrounding waters.
The discovery was made by researchers with the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The scientists mapped out over 55 square miles of the ocean floor stretching from the coast of Los Angeles to Santa Catalina Island. This region has shown elevated levels of manmade chemicals and it was once used as a dumping ground by companies that wanted to get rid of waste products and other nasty toxins. In 1972, the Ocean Dumping Act prevented this practice going forward, but the damage we see today was already done.
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