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

Potting soil might not seem the most obvious fire hazard. Suggesting that soil can go up in flames might even seem silly. However, potting soil is increasingly being labeled as a risk during summer.

The Oregon Department of Transportation, fire ... fire on the soil],” Roering said, “But we need to find out. Because the sites in Oregon where we’ve documented extreme hydrophobicity ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Tuesday, April 15, unanimously approved reallocating $3 million toward soil testing in the Eaton fire burn area following the results of a county study ...

Property owners in the Eaton Fire burn area are to get county support for more in-depth soil testing after elevated levels of lead were discovered downwind of the wildfire. The Los Angeles County ...

To conduct the peer-reviewed study, the researchers took soil samples from 58 properties in Boulder County four months after the fire. Half came from areas burned in the blaze. The other half were ...

one avenue of monitoring for risk will lie in soil moisture levels. A recent study on fire activity by European academics and environmental engineers observed that the destruction by fire of ...

I first heard the term hydrophobic soils on the local news after the Camp Fire ravaged the Ridge and Butte Creek Canyon. This potentially catastrophic natural phenomenon seems counterintuitive ...