Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of drilling platforms and seafloor pipelines, thousands of 55-gallon drums containing hazardous industrial chemicals litter a vast, dark swath of ...
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 ...
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 ...