ALTADENA, Calif. (CNS) -- The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health began a residential soil testing program in neighborhoods near the Eaton Fire to better assess the levels of lead ...

But these days, many homes face a looming challenge, literally beneath the surface: The possibility of lead in the soil. Estrada, like many downwind from the Eaton fire’s burn zone, are ...

The wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in January incinerated more than 16,000 structures and unleashed tons of toxic material into the air, water and soil. Many Pacific Palisades and Altadena ...

The study focused on intact residential parcels within and near the burn zones, where samples were taken in an effort to evaluate soil conditions following the fires. In the Palisades area ...

A group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has unveiled a pioneering method to measure soil moisture in the vadose zone-the shallow region between the earth's ...

After several consecutive years of drought in Saskatchewan, the first heavy rainfall of the year has given life to farmers' soil in southern parts of the province. Ian McCreary's fields near ...

With the unseasonal warmth and dryness, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie is getting questions from farmers wondering about spring strip-tilling or zone building. One question came in from ...