There are conflicting claims about radioactive material near the Montour Trail. Independent testing found elevated levels of ...

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to create chilled molecules containing the radioactive element radium.

Radiation affects air, soil, and water differently, and its behavior can even vary depending on the type of plant.

More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped into the Northeast Atlantic during the second half of the 20th ...

Long after the events of Chernobyl and Fukushima, their impacts are still being felt. The animals near major nuclear events and nuclear testing sites, like Enewetak Atoll, were discovered to have ...

Nuclear blasts create dangerous fallout — residual radioactive material that travels high into the air, cools into dust, and eventually settles back to the ground, poisoning it in the process. Most ...

The risk of somebody somewhere triggering a radioactive “dirty bomb” is growing, evidence gathered by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency suggests. The IAEA’s records, which it has released to ...