Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A backhoe scrapes 6 inches of dirt at a house on Las Casas Avenue in Pacific Palisades in June. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times ...

If your garden has ever looked “fine” one week and then started twisting, stalling, or producing weirdly bitter harvests the next, it’s easy to blame weather. But a growing number of gardeners are ...

A new study published in Science reveals that up to 1.4 billion people worldwide live in regions where soils are dangerously polluted by toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, ...

Dirt. 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 ...

A team of UCLA researchers has screened nearly 700 soil samples for hundreds of Los Angeles County residents concerned about contamination in their yards and gardens, part of a growing effort to ...

The Utah Department of Environmental Quality has identified piles of contaminated soil on the Treasure Mountain Junior High School demolition site, but state officials have said there are no risks of ...

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 ...

The Oklahoma County Board of County Commissioners is considering a contract to remediate contaminated soil on the site of the county’s future campus for a new jail and behavioral care center. An item ...