Airthings, the company behind digital sensors that detect radon gas, has built a global map based on frequently updated data pulled from its distributed network of devices installed in customers' ...

About 700 houses were surveyed to create the map [MANX SCENES] A map detailing levels of a naturally occurring radioactive gas on the Isle of Man has identified homes with higher readings. Radon is ...

Ramping up their campaign to reduce health hazards from radon, state officials released an online map Tuesday that Minnesotans can use to check risk levels in their area. The Minnesota Department of ...

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 ...

Livingston County health officials released new maps charting estimated radon levels in the county's 16 townships, two cities and two villages. Matt Bolang, the county's environmental health director, ...

A new map has revealed that up to 25 percent of Americans live in areas where radon levels are considered unsafe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Radon is a radioactive gas that has no ...

Radon and smoking are both known causes of lung cancer, but when someone is exposed to both, the results can be deadly.

For two weeks straight, Stanley Watras set off the radiation alarms as he entered his workplace at the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Authorities at the plant were stunned to learn that ...

WASHINGTON - A cancer-causing gas could be going undetected in local schools because of inconsistencies in state laws that require some school systems to test but not others. That gas is called radon.