In the 1970's, Duluth, along with it's neighbors who drew drinking water from Lake Superior, faced a water crisis, when ...

The man credited with a key role in the discovery of asbestos-like fibers in Iron Range taconite tailings in the 1970s has died. Joseph Mengel, 79, a former University of Wisconsin-Superior geology ...

Crawford Tech students performed renovation work eight times over the past few months at an auto garage that has been the ...

The presence of asbestos has been detected in a high school gym in Fairfield, school officials announced Wednesday. Workers found a substance that could possibly be asbestos while conducting ...

Over the last century, the U.S. military primarily used asbestos because the World War II war effort needed cheap materials to mass-produce equipment quickly. Manufacturers wanted to profit from the ...

Crawford Tech is continuing its response to possible asbestos exposures at one building under renovation and moving forward ...

More asbestos-like fibers have been discovered in rock samples from the Penokee Hills of Northwestern Wisconsin, where a company had proposed to build an open-pit iron mine. According to a northern ...

For much of the 19th and 20th century, the mining and use of asbestos saw near-constant growth, with virtually every material used in the construction of homes, offices, ships, road networks and ...

Occupational asbestos exposure impacts more than a million Americans each year.1 Once hailed a “wonder material,” asbestos served a central role in American commercial product manufacturing and ...

Williamsport High School will begin the academic year with virtual learning as its building undergoes an extensive asbestos removal and restoration process, Washington County Public Schools announced ...

It's been long known that asbestos spells trouble for human cells. Scientists have seen cells stabbed with spiky, long asbestos fibers, and the image is gory: Part of the fiber is protruding from the ...

If you want to cause homeowner anxiety, there's no better word to do it than "asbestos." Implicated in 5,000 U.S. deaths annually, it's nearly ubiquitous yet little understood in its threat. Here's a ...