Posted on 11/18/2013 2:17:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Decades after industrial waste dumping turned part of Southern California's seafloor into a toxic hot spot, scientists have dredged up a mystery.
Chemicals fouling the ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula seem to be going away without being cleaned up.
Samples taken from the sediment suggest more than 100 metric tons of the banned pesticide DDT and industrial compounds known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have vanished from one of the country's most hazardous sites, almost a 90% drop in just five years.
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Absolutely.
Can we blame Global Warming for this?
Now you’ve done it, my curiousity is jumping, never heard of archea; have you any links you would like to share?
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/archaea.html
http://www.astrobio.net/hottopic_origins_extremelife.php
https://www.google.com/#q=archaea
Are they suggesting that the Earth may have natural processes for cleaning itself up? Possibly this is why the planet remained habitable for hundreds of millions of years?
Hundreds of millions of years of decomposing animals, animal waste and who knows what all, and the planet cleaned up afterwards. Possibly the planet eventually cleans up anything, although some things take much longer?
Have they really never thought this possible before?
Do they also go by the name Sea Monkeys?
thanks.
No. Sea monkeys are an artificially created hybrid of shrimp.
I thought Sea Monkeys were just plain old brine shrimp.
No. They are manmade hybrids...at least the ones they sell.
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