Heavy metals, lead, and plastic chemicals in soil and residue are a threat after the Los Angeles wildfires. Here’s how to find out.

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Anxious about the rueful state of his peas, radishes and onions, Rod Marquardt arrived at the University of Minnesota’s soil testing laboratory with two lunch bag-sized containers of dirt. “We’re just ...

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 ...

Elected officials in California are calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing on properties destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades ...

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 ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. -- A toxicologist hired by Contra Costa County began collecting soil samples Thursday to be tested for contaminants related to last year's accidental release of "spent catalyst" from ...

Preliminary soil sample testing in the Eaton Fire burn area revealed a high percentage of lead, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. These results, released Thursday, come ...

AND TODAY WE CAN REPORT THE FIRST SAMPLES HAVE COME IN.. S AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK INSIDE THE MONTEREY COUNTY HEALTH LAB.. THAT RECEIVED ITS FIRST WATER SAMPLES FRIDAY AFTERNOON.. THE WATER WILL BE TESTED ...