You can’t see it, smell it or taste it, but radon gas could be in your home causing serious health problems for you and your family. Believe it or not, the EPA has ranked indoor radon as among the ...

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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 ...

Homeowners are routinely urged to install detection devices for any number of environmental hazards. Fire and smoke detectors provide immediate protection against a real-time threat and carbon ...

The government of Canada is gearing up for another public education push linked to radon, a potentially harmful gas lurking in high concentrations in close to 1 in 10 Canadian homes. The long-term ...

New Health Canada research indicates there are hundreds more cases annually of lung cancer caused by indoor radon exposure than first determined in the late 1970s, prompting the agency to urge ...

Since I started doing these data columns in 2020, one important source for topic ideas has been readers like you. I’m not able to address all of those ideas, or even most of them, but I do my best to ...

Most radon inspection costs range from $146 to $716, though a typical average is $420. Homeowners anticipating the cost of a radon inspection will need to consider factors such as the home size, ...

A study of more than 700 counties across multiple U.S. states found a link between childhood leukemia and levels of decaying radon gas, including those lower than the federal guideline for mitigation.

As she laid down on the sterile, off-white platform of the CT scanner, Chasity Harney tried to remember how many times she’d done this. It was August and she was back in Columbus for another exam at ...