Health Canada has issued a safety risk warning about two radon gas detectors sold on Amazon.ca. Through sampling and evaluation, the organization’s Radiation Protection Bureau determined the ...

If radon is trapped indoors, people and animals can breathe it in, where it continues to decay in the lungs or gets lodged in lung tissue. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s action level ...

Map from the paper showing the spatial distributions of predicted radon concentrations at screening floor in winter. L. Li, B.A. Coull, C.L. Zilli Vieira, P. Koutrakis, High-resolution national ...

Quebec's provincially owned hydro utility will also pay Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro a $3.5-billion fee for the right to co-develop two more energy projects on the Churchill River.

Municipalities in Newfoundland and Labrador are taking action against radon, an invisible radioactive gas that causes lung cancer. In Conception Bay South, 30 per cent of homes tested had high ...

Simeon Baker, a senior environmental health specialist at the MCHD, said the tests that inform the data in the map began in the 1980s, although the map was just uploaded this year. The big takeaway ...

Central Brighton sits at a three to five per cent radon potential while Hove is at a 10-30 per cent risk. You can find out if your home is affected by using this interactive map. In Mid Sussex ...

According to the EPA, radon causes about 21,000 lung cancer deaths in the U.S. each year. It's the second leading cause of lung cancer deaths after cigarette smoke.

To reduce radon levels, Hipps said homeowners can get a mitigation system installed that removes the gas from under the house. “I’ve seen numbers come in at 20, and we can get it down to, say 3.

Click on the map to see radon levels in each Lehigh Valley ZIP code. The EPA’s action level for radon, the point where mitigation steps should be taken, is 4 picocuries per liter.