The council said "high levels of asbestos fibres" were found in the sand at Mount Batten beach.

Cleanup operations at the site of the Peoples Cartage warehouse fire in South Parkersburg have been put on hold under the ...

A POPULAR English beach has been closed after “toxic” asbestos was found in the sand – amid the UK’s third heatwave this ...

Small amounts of debris found outside the fire site will be removed as a precaution, says the council.

SEIU Local 1000 cites concerns about environmental conditions at some state offices; state officials say they are taking ...

Japan banned the production and use of asbestos in 2006, but new health cases caused by the carcinogen continue to emerge while problems remain over compensation and buildings containing the hazardous ...

Twenty-five years after a British company created a compensation fund for people harmed by its asbestos operations, millions ...

A 1946 study (PDF) that found that covering pipes with asbestos is not a dangerous occupation is facing a call for retraction ...

Asbestos exposure stands as one of the most widespread, destructive and persistent occupational health disasters of the 20th century.

The widow alleges Johnson & Johnson and several other companies failed to warn consumers about cancer-causing asbestos in their products.

The Arkansas Department of Transportation reopened its headquarters in Little Rock on Wednesday, a week after air quality ...

A Devon beach has been closed after high levels of asbestos were found in the sand. Mount Batten beach in Plymouth was shut ...