human health

Interest rates on farm loans increased sharply in the third quarter, and the acceleration in farm real estate values continued to ease.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A cleanup contractor says the release of radiation that triggered an alarm at a former plutonium production site in Washington state was so low that it did not pose a threat to human health. Contractor CH2M Hill said radiation was detected Thursday at low levels outside a building being demolished at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is expanding its Internet empire. It is creating a new company — one that will oversee its Internet business as well as its other ventures. The new company will be called "Alphabet" — and will be the umbrella under which Google will keep its efforts that include things like cars that drive themselves and ways to prolong human life...