Wildfire survivors across Los Angeles County are discovering that the most dangerous consequence from a wildfire isn’t always visible. Lead, arsenic, and other toxic metals could be hiding deep in ...

Now that we have experienced the first frost of the season, and the growing season for most garden and home landscape plants has come to an end, we as gardeners tend to start thinking about things we ...

Eri Saikawa has received a few interesting emails over the past two years. Saikawa is the Emory University researcher whose team uncovered massive lead contamination on Atlanta’s Westside. Her work ...

Healthy gardens start below the surface. Learn why soil testing garden beds matters, how to collect a proper sample, and what ...

Angelenos are understandably worried about the toxins deposited by smoke and ash from the Eaton and Palisades urban wildfires in January, but after L.A. Times Plants tested soil around eight burn ...

Regularly testing your soil is more important than you might think for helping your plants thrive. Soil tests measure soil pH and nutrient content. The soil of established gardens should be tested ...

Preliminary soil testing in the aftermath of the Palisades and Eaton wildfires has uncovered isolated pockets of chemical contamination in the Palisades area, prompting calls for further investigation ...

The Atlantic Alumina refinery near Gramercy has filed a plan to test for contaminants in the soil and groundwater around its facility after multiple instances of industrial waste spewing from its ...

Federal officials have declared they will not order soil sampling after completing debris removal on Los Angeles properties that succumbed to the region’s devastating fires earlier this year, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Contaminated soil was among the issues causing delays to the state's opening of 45 so-called rapidly deployable pallet houses to help house the homeless. Testing in December ...

BOSSIER CITY, La. — Contractors overseeing the cleanup of the former Kerr-McGee wood-treating facility say newly expanded soil sampling uncovered additional pockets of creosote contamination ...