A Henry County, Missouri school canceled classes Thursday and Friday. Now it's working to figure out when students can return ...

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 ...

The Wyoming Department of Health wants Wyoming families to consider testing their homes for radon and offers free test kits ...

Element cycles are the biogeochemical pathways by which elements are transformed and moved through various states by geological and biological processes. Almost half of globally leached nitrate ...

Ore mined in the Northwest Territories was transported to Port Hope, Ont., then used to develop the bombs that were dropped ...

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 ...

One of the chief values of this publication is that it gives a summary of the results of radium treatment of cancer in various parts of the body. The results are given as survival rates ...

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 ...