The EPA is encouraging residents near the Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination site to get their soil tested and have their children tested for lead levels.

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UCLA researchers have tested 700 soil samples across Los Angeles County, from wildfire zones in Malibu-Pacific Palisades to industrial areas like Watts, finding widespread lead contamination.

Sandy soil doesn’t provide good anchoring support. Also, water drains right through it, and it dries out quickly. Nutrients also leach out quickly from it. But the looseness of sandy soil also means ...

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When Sandia scientists Ryan Davis and Nathan Bays set out to find a better way to absorb and degrade PFAS in water sources, they kept running into the same issue: Detecting the chemicals in samples ...

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