New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as ...

The caustic waste that leaked from the barrels created an extreme environment similar to that of hydrothermal vents, ...

Commercial fishermen are leaving what was once the seafood capital of America in search of shrimp as LNG export terminals ...

Late last month, North County reporter Tigist Layne revealed that Encinitas Councilmember Luke Shaffer had been charged with ...

At the Port of Los Angeles, the ocean’s waves area creating renewable energy in a pilot project by the company Eco Wave Power ...

Strange halos around some barrels—previously thought to have contained the toxic pesticide DDT—appear to have been caused by ...

How it works: Blue floats attached to the side of a wharf bob with the waves, sending fluid through pipes into tanks. When ...

Barrels of industrial waste dumped into the Pacific Ocean decades ago are still affecting the deep seafloor off the Los Angeles coast, a new study has found. The discarded barrels, which have for ...

Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets, including giant underwater sea curtains and refreezing Arctic ice, are ...

Off the coast of Los Angeles, decades-old barrels from the 1930s to the 1970s are still leaking toxic substances into the ...

As the small blue floats bob up and down, each pushes a cylinder that sends a biodegradable hydraulic fluid through a system ...

F rom the 1930s to the 1970s, barrels amounting to thousands of tons of chemicals were dumped off the coast of Los Angeles. It was an assault on the environment that would continue to unfold for ...