After asbestos was found in a range of coloured sand, early childhood centres and schools in Australia and New Zealand are ...

The scale of Australia’s latest asbestos scare remains unknown in NSW almost a week after children’s sand sold by some of the ...

Schools and childcare centres across the country have either shut or sent out alerts after trace amounts of asbestos in ...

Seventeen schools were shut down on Friday after concerns about asbestos exposure. The reopening of one of the schools has ...

Democrats and Republicans are each accusing the other of holding up a bill to ban asbestos that had been expected to pass with little controversy this week. The Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act ...

Thirteen public schools will remain closed on Thursday, and another 22 will remain partially closed. Several non-government ...

Explainer - Why is asbestos such a worry, and what's the risk after coloured play sand has been revealed to be contaminated?

Steven Kenny was a demolition worker in the late 1970s and had significant exposure to asbestos. More than four decades later, the 64-year-old was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive ...

Bruce Inkley worked with asbestos for almost his entire career, but it was his wife, Hellen, who died last year from exposure ...

Rapidly developing nations such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China "face an impending public health crisis of an unprecedented scale" because they continue to produce and use asbestos, warn experts.