Nova Scotia is spending $30,000 to ensure more people across the province have access to radon detectors. Colourless and odourless, long-term exposure to the radioactive gas is linked to lung cancer.

Check out Nova Scotia's interactive radon risk map. The Radiation Safety Institute provided CBC Nova Scotia with five radon test kits to distribute to our audience as a way of encouraging others ...

A new map has revealed that up to 25 percent of Americans live in areas where radon levels are considered unsafe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Radon is a radioactive gas that has ...

Smokers are at an even greater risk when exposed to high radon levels, as the effects of radon and smoking are synergistic. According to the EPA, of 1,000 smokers living a lifetime at the action ...

Nova Scotia is giving libraries $30,000 to help boost a program that provides access to digital radon detectors to members of the public. File photo of Halifax Central Library.