Johnson Cancer Research Center continues studies connecting water contamination and radon levels in Kansas homes to cancer rates.

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

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

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, 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 ...

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.

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 ...

A Dispatch investigation found Ohio has failed to enact widespread policies for radon testing and mitigation, unlike many other states. Newark is ground zero for radon as a recent study found it has ...