Residents on a North Philly street are grappling with a sudden surge in illegal dumping, which has transformed their ...

Two teens turned themselves in and were charged with felonies after a video went viral of people dumping of two barrels of trash from a boat into the ocean during the April 28, Boca Bash event ...

Barrels of DDT waste — along with other chemicals — were likely poured directly into the ocean near Catalina Island, according to federal regulators.

Thousands of decaying barrels littering the seafloor off the Los Angeles coast may contain radioactive waste, according to an alarming new study. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara initially thought ...

It’s not just toxic chemical waste and mysterious barrels that litter the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. Oceanographers have now discovered what appears to be a massive dumping ground of ...

Barrels of DDT waste — along with other chemicals — were likely poured directly into the ocean near Catalina Island, according to federal regulators.

“Dumping barrels of hazardous waste along our public roadways is simply unacceptable,” county Public Works principal environmental specialist Ann Fletcher said in the release.

DDT dumped off Peninsula went straight into ocean, not contained in barrels, EPA says What's in the thousands of barrels off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula remains a mystery.

Scientists from various disciplines are spending a month at sea to locate these barrels, which were submerged between 1950 and 1990, and to assess their impact on marine biodiversity.