The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. While listening to an Iowa Cancer Consortium presentation in 2012 on the dangers of radon and its ...

Iowa's new law mandates passive radon mitigation in new homes, aiming to combat this dangerous gas linked to lung cancer, though some debate its effectiveness.

About 15 years ago, Iowa builder Hubbell Realty began including passive radon mitigation systems in houses being built. High radon results done 10 days before closing left some buyers less than ...

MASON CITY — There’s an online map showing the potential of exposure to radon — an odorless, radioactive gas which has been proven to cause lung cancer — for homes in each of Iowa’s 99 counties.

Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have assembled a national database with millions of multi-day indoor radon measurements from 2001 to 2021. Findings reveal that nearly 25% of ...