Dirty dust Children exposed to blue asbestos may face more wide-ranging health problems in adulthood than mesothelioma and lung cancer, according to an Australian study. Researchers from Western ...

Bolivian crocidolite was used in approximately 13 billion Kent Micronite cigarette filters, manufactured from March 1952 ...

A lawsuit for breach of contract may be retaliation, a local nonprofit claims, for the organization threatening to tell other tenants about improper asbestos abatement causing potential health ...

Victims of asbestos-related mesothelioma have joined medical researchers to try and find a cure for the deadly disease. Barry Knowles worked as a builder and handled asbestos materials all his life, ...

Rundle Mall’s old department stores were sprayed extensively with asbestos when they were built in the 1960s – now court cases are revealing retail employees died after being exposed to the ...

Rolls-Royce may have dumped hazardous blue asbestos into a Derbyshire waste tip shrouded in mystery and controversy. In 1976, Derbyshire County Council had suggested that the aero-engine manufacturer, ...

Egypt's asbestos factories were officially closed down in 2005, and yet the impact of this extremely dangerous material is being felt more vividly than ever today, because of the long timespan between ...

Alison Reid receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council. The relationship between asbestos exposure and diseases such as malignant ...

THE result of tests determining whether a blue material found on Rottnest Island is asbestos is expected in the coming days. The potential asbestos scatter was reported by a visitor on Monday after ...

Canada's Jeffrey mine is looking to boost exports. Photo: Eve Belanger Banned or restricted in more than 50 countries, white asbestos continues to be widely used in China, India, Russia and Brazil, ...

Rolls-Royce may have dumped hazardous blue asbestos into a Derbyshire waste tip shrouded in mystery and controversy. In 1976, Derbyshire County Council had suggested that the aero-engine manufacturer, ...