Asbestos
Japan, UNDP to build debris recycling facilities in quake zone
Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement worth 130.6 million Turkish Liras for recycling earthquake debris in Türkiye's southern provinces of Hatay and Kahramanmaraş, which suffered the most damage in the Feb. 6 twin quakes.
Permission for Brazil’s ‘asbestos ship’ revoked
Türkiye has revoked a local company's permission to dismantle a Brazilian aircraft carrier dubbed "the asbestos ship."
Brazilian navy's NAE Sau Paulo had been due to be taken apart near the Aegean coast city of İzmir in the coming weeks under a contract awarded to a local shipyard 2021.
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New early human discovered in Israel – Nesher Ramla Homo
It was found at a cement site
Asbestos found on car wandering across Istanbul
Many harmful substances, including asbestos fibers that cause lung cancer, were detected in samples taken from a vehicle wandering around the streets of Istanbul, daily Milliyet reported on May 10.
According to a survey conducted by the Associations of Experts on Asbestos Disassembly (ASUD), a car belonging to an asbestos expert was cleaned from top to bottom on April 28.
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Fire-ravaged town starts rebuilding
Three hundred of the houses that were ravaged in last summer's disastrous wildfires in Mati, eastern Attica, have received permits to rebuild and are slated to receive state funding for the purpose, Infrastructure Ministry General Secretary Maria Kleanthi told a meeting of local authority officials and residents on Wednesday.
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Experts look into damage caused by university blaze
Experts were Monday assessing the impact of a fire late Sunday that destroyed dorms and other facilities belonging to the University of Crete in Iraklio, as scientists monitored asbestos levels. Concern was raised over an unspecified quantity of the chemical ethanol in a lab hit by the fire.
No end to woes of locals in fire-ravaged Mati
As the toll from last month's wildfires in east Attica Thursday climbed to 98 with the death of an 83-year-old woman at an Athens hospital, residents at the seaside town of Mati, which suffered the biggest losses, continue to face significant challenges.
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J&J ordered to pay $4.69 bn damages in talc cancer case
US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was Thursday ordered to pay out $4.69 billion in damages in a lawsuit representing 22 women and their families who alleged a talc sold by the company contained asbestos and caused them to suffer cancer.
Asbestos in Istanbul buildings puts lives at risk
Checks for asbestos, which is considered carcinogenic material by the World Health Organization, is only obligatory in seven of the Istanbul districts ahead of demolition works, experts have warned.
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Cancerogenic asbestos detected in one third of demolished buildings in Istanbul's Kadıköy
Officials have detected asbestos, which was banned in Turkey in 2011 for its cancerogenic effects, in one third of all demolished buildings in Istanbul's Kadıköy district as part of an ongoing urban transformation, daily Milliyet reported on May 31.