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 is a radioactive gas found in many homes and is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers.
In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die from lung cancer as a result of radon gas exposure. Nationally, the number of lung cancer deaths attributed to radon is about 21,000 per year.
Swift Current and area residents can now rent kits to test if radon, an odourless, tasteless, and invisible natural gas, is ...
Pictured at the launch of the initiative were, from left: Alan Stephens, EPA Regional Manager; Librarian Orlagh Heverin; County Librarian Austin Vaughan; Mayo County Council Cathaoirleach Sean Carey; ...
Denying the appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal found CNSC’s decision – including its interpretation of the phrase “associated with the development, production or use of nuclear energy” in s. 10 of ...
In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die from lung cancer as the result of radon gas exposure. Nationally, the number of lung cancer deaths attributed to radon is about 21,000 per year.
Doctors are now sounding the alarm over a statistic that surprises many patients: nearly one in five people diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked.
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Increasingly, pesticides are being blamed for rising cancer rates across America’s agricultural communities. Hardin County, home to around 800 farms, has a pesticide use rate more than four times the ...
MAYO Library has announced the launch of a new Radon Monitor Loan Scheme, enabling members of the public to borrow digital radon monitors to check radon levels in their homes.