Altadenans are finding common ground when it comes to returning to their gardens after the Eaton fire, and a trio of experts have banded together to help. For those who still have gardens standing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Eaton fire burn area at the 300 block of E. Palm Street in Altadena on May 27, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental unit leader Daniel Walsh pours soil samples into a jar from where a house burned in the Mountain fire in Camarillo. ...

I first heard the term on the local evening news in fall of 2018: Meteorologist Kris Kuyper was talking about hydrophobic soils. This potentially catastrophic natural phenomenon seems counterintuitive ...

The Altadena area has a higher percentage of soil samples with lead levels above healthy thresholds than the Pacific Palisades area, months after both communities were ravaged by brush fires. The Los ...

It surrounds people’s homes. It’s in local parks, schoolyards and parkways abutting sidewalks. But it’s not something people paid much attention to. Until recently. Ever since the Palisades and Eaton ...

A group of environmental researchers is calling on the Newsom administration to step in and pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires. Nearly a dozen ...