๐จ 25,000 BARRELS OF โFOREVER POISONโ FOUND LEAKING INTO CALIFORNIAโS OCEAN
โTwelve miles off Catalina Islandโฆ all these barrels just sitting on the ocean floor.โ
โWhatโs in them?โ scientists asked. The answer: DDT, a pesticide so toxic itโs been banned for 50 years.
They thought there were 50 barrels.
They found 25,000 of them leaking poison across a stretch of seafloor larger than San Francisco.
Sea lions riddled with cancer.
Fish contaminated.
The Pacific bleeding chemicals that never die.
Montrose Chemical dumped thousands of barrels a month and some workers even poked holes in them so theyโd sink faster.
Seventy years later, the barrels are breaking open.
And everyone acted like they didnโt know.
How long have they known and said nothing?
"The fact that the Chargers and Chiefs, a divisional rivalry game, is going to be played in Brazil is malpractice. I mean, that's terrible."
โย DP is not happy with a divisional game in Brazil kicking off the season for the Chargers and Chiefs.
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐: Scott Hanson confirms NFL RedZone will now have FULL COMMERCIALS this season, not just overlay ads.
He says the new intro will be...
โ7 Hours of RedZone Football start now!โ
What happened to the sport we love ๐๐
Four ingredients for clean oceans:
1. Stop inflow from rivers
2. Remove pollution from shorelines
3. Clean up ocean garbage patches
4. Stop inflow from fishing sources
IMPACT UPDATE: In the first half of 2025, we caught more trash than in all of 2024 combined! This adds up to over 30,000,000 kg (over 66M lbs) of trash removed from oceans and rivers worldwide.
MEDIA CALL: join @BoyanSlat, Founder and CEO @theoceancleanup, for a press conference presenting a big update on scaling Interceptor deployments worldwide at #UNOC3.
๐Location: Anantara Plaza Nice Hotel
๐๏ธ Date: June 12th at 12pm CEST
RSVP: [email protected]@UNOceanDecade