A federal agency recently approved using a slightly radioactive byproduct in a test road in Polk County. Ideally, roads ...

A professor of Radiation and Health Physics at the Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti, Babatope Faweya has called on the government at all levels to initiate policies that would address the ...

Radioactive contamination in freshwater mussels is potentially affecting the food chain in Pennsylvania, including iconic animals such as bald eagles and possibly even humans.

Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” connected disappearing populations of bald eagles to the presence of the pesticide DDT in the birds’ food chain. Because bald eagles are apex predators, their dose of ...

Compared to samples collected upstream of the facility, the researchers found elevated levels of the radioactive element radium in the animals’ soft tissue, their hard shells and the streambed ...

The remaining substance contains radium, which then off-gases radon (you know, the stuff we were terrified of in the late ’80s/early ’90s.) Using the slightly radioactive substance in road ...

With all the talk of nuclear power plants and storing spent fuel rods in Northwest Colorado, I thought it would be good to ...

Brian Haycraft, a plumber in Wenona, called the water quality “dangerous,” and believes it is damaging copper water pipes. Haycraft also said the city has been having issues for a year. We reached out ...