On a winter night in Colorado, a family might sit in a tightly sealed modern house, windows shut to keep in the heat. Inside, ...

The most dangerous threat in a home might not crackle, leak, or smell. It might sit quietly in the basement right now, ...

SWAT Environmental reports that radon, a harmful gas linked to lung cancer, can be mitigated by testing and using techniques like active soil depressurization.

Radon, an odorless radioactive gas that seeps from soil into homes, is responsible for an estimated 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year in the United States. That figure, drawn from federal risk ...

Naturally occurring radioactivity can be found throughout the earth's crust. Some of these radionuclides decay into stable elements, such as 40 K 40 Ar, 14 C 14 N and 87 Rb 87 Sr. Others are members ...

This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. About 5 billion years ago, stars merged and exploded, creating uranium that eventually became ...

As radioactive atoms are transported through groundwater aquifers in the form of gaseous radon, they are eventually transferred to the atmosphere. Measurements of the rate of this transfer can, in ...

OSHKOSH (WLUK) -- January is Radon Action Month, and public health officials in Winnebago County are using it as an opportunity to remind homeowners of the importance of radon testing. "Winnebago ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — January is National Radon Action Month, and the American Lung Association is urging everyone to test their homes for radon. According to reports from the American Lung ...

Unsafe levels of cancer-causing radon gas detected at 16 UK prisons - High levels of radon gas, which can increase the risk ...