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In December, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health joined other agencies in testing soil in and around Altadena. The team ...

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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 ...

Ash rained down and smoke blanketed Los Angeles during the 2025 wildfires, leaving behind a toxic legacy in soil and homes.

Learn why soil pH is the most important soil test value and how it affects nutrient availability and lime requirements.

To inform those living within and around the Palisades and Eaton Fire zones – a Los Angeles-based organization is leading the effort to sample the soil at more than a thousand properties. The ...

Representative soil sample testing done in a Los Angeles County Public Health study found a higher percentage of samples with lead levels above health-based screening thresholds taken from parcels ...

An Eagan neighborhood is starting to get results from soil sample tests done after elevated levels of lead were detected in the air near the Gopher Resource recycling facility. The free soil screening ...