A bonfire on a site that contains asbestos was set alight despite warnings over the dangers of doing so. Northern Ireland's ...

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency says fragments of suspected asbestos were found at five locations on the site at ...

The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S.

The about-face came after a public outcry over plans to reconsider Biden-era restrictions on the carcinogenic material.

Asbestos is posing a risk at a fire in a carport in the Auckland suburb of Titirangi this evening. Photos shared online show ...

Elsewhere, effigies of the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags and sectarian slogans were burned on pyres across Northern Ireland.

The Trump administration has dropped its proposal to alter or delay a ban on the last type of asbestos used in the U.S., ...

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding ...

A woman from West Suffolk died after being exposed to asbestos in her earlier working life, a court heard. Sandra Cooper, who was 63, and from Chedburgh, outside Bury St Edmunds, died on November 10 ...

Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said he is disappointed that an Eleventh night bonfire was lit in south Belfast despite ...

As reported in our June 28, 2025, blog item, on June 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a motion ...

Cleanup crews contracted by the Army Corp of Engineers dumped asbestos-tainted wildfire debris in landfills that they shouldn ...