Thousands of barrels with bizarre “white halos” were found deep beneath the U.S. coast near Los Angeles, and scientists are starting to unravel the mystery. A study published Tuesday in the journal ...

Over fifty years ago, thousands of steel drums containing industrial waste were dumped off the coast of Southern California by chemical companies. The barrels, which are peppered across 14 sites along ...

Approximately 47,800 containers of radioactive waste are sitting on the ocean floor off San Francisco. No salvage operation ...

The toxic barrels, which came to public attention in 2020, appear to have "halos" around them — and researchers have finally figured out why. | Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute. Thousands of barrels of ...

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 ...