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

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

Is Your Home Safe from Radon? Health Risks and How to Protect Yourself: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty Radon is a colourless, odourless gas that poses a serious environmental health risk, often without ...

Radon is a natural gas that is odorless, invisible, and radioactive. It's generated by the breakdown of metals like uranium or radium in rocks and soil. While very low levels of the gas are thought to ...

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 ...

Exposure to radon was linked to an increased risk for gestational diabetes, a population-based cohort study suggested. Among 9,107 mothers-to-be, those living in U.S. counties with the highest radon ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) --Exposure to even moderate levels of radon -- a invisible, odorless gas that is the second-leading cause of lung cancer -- has been linked to an increased risk of stroke, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 55% of respondents were not concerned about radon exposure in their homes, schools or community. There ...

Exposure to even moderate concentrations of radon is associated with a significant increase in stroke risk, new research suggests. An analysis of radon exposures in more than 150,000 postmenopausal ...

Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas produced when metals like uranium or radium break down in rocks and soil, is a known cause of lung cancer. Now new research has found exposure to high ...

Could a lower threshold for radon levels in Canadian homes protect more people from getting lung cancer? Some researchers say ...