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First study of its kind finds deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone'

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...
Los Angeles Times

It’s not just toxic chemicals. Radioactive waste was also dumped off Los Angeles coast

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine environment ...