IOWA, MISSOURI & ILLINOIS — You can't see it or taste it, but it could be there. "Radon is odorless and colorless, you don't know its presence until you measure it in the environment," said Dr. Valena ...

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

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 ...

Radon mitigation systems would be a requirement of Iowa building code for newly constructed homes under a bill passed ...

At the request of Councilor Marco Yepez-Gomez — and amidst ongoing conversations about Iowa’s troublesome cancer rates — the Marshalltown city council discussed and informally agreed on adding code ...

Watch the full news briefing in the video at the end of this story. LUCKEY, Ohio (WTVG) - Water testing results from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency show that the water in the Luckey and ...

Radon is an invisible, odorless gas that is the second-leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. An estimated 50% of Ohio homes may have high levels of radon due to minerals deposited by glaciers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Groveport Madison Schools plans to test for radon in all of its buildings this winter after receiving a high test result and ...

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 ...

Many schools don’t know whether students are being exposed to the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S., according to a memo published by the state auditor’s office.