‘Underwater Roombas’ Help Start Cleanup of Decades-Old Toxic Waste Dump Along California Coast
A research vessel launched this week is on an urgent mission to map out damage from a long-overlooked crisis on the ocean floor, and they’re putting robots to work to help. In October, people living on Santa Catalina Island, which sits 22 miles (35 kilometers) off the coast of Southern California, were shocked to learn…