EditorialOnce a symbol of economic prosperity, Wittenoom, Australia, is now a ghost town, polludted by decades of asbestos mining. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialGayla Benefield, sitting at home with her husband David, talks with a woman who suspects she has been exposed to asbestos, in Libby, Mont., April 28, 2000. (Monica Almeida/The New York Times)
EditorialTom Chapman, Porthcawl, who is completing a series of swims across the Bristol channel to raise money for the hospice that cared for his late father who died of asbestos related lung cancer. Picture taken 25th June 2021
EditorialA portrait of Cornelis Komen, a salesman for an English asbestos company, in Almere, Netherlands, March 5, 2020. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)