Blue asbestos is far less common in buildings, which is just as well because it's more dangerous than white asbestos.

蓝色的石棉在建筑中要少见得多，幸好是这样，因为它比白色石棉更危险。

He achieved some modest victories, pressuring the city to open a jobs center in the neighborhood, demanding action to remove asbestos from a housing estate.

他取得了一些温和的胜利，向市政府施压，要求在附近开设一个就业中心，并要求采取行动，从一个住宅区清除石棉。

Why is asbestos a problem?

为何石棉成为问题？

Radon and asbestos.

氡和石棉。

Workers exposed to asbestos can develop cancer.

长期接触石棉的工人可能罹患癌症。

What is asbestos?

何谓石棉？

"Only problem is the siding is asbestos," she says.

“唯一的毛病是外墙是石棉的。”她说。

Asbestos, used as a flame retardant, can cause cancer.

石棉用于阻燃剂，可能导致癌症。

Disturbing asbestos can release microscopic fibers to the air.

受到破坏的石棉可能会向空气中释放微细纤维。

Two other air pollutants require some mention: radon and asbestos.

另外两种空气污染需要某种提示：氡和石棉。

One in three deaths from occupational cancer is caused by asbestos.

每三名职业性癌症死亡病例中，就有一例是由石棉引起的。

He now has lymphatic tumours in his chest, as well as asbestos poisoning.

现在，他的胸腔不但长有多块淋巴肿瘤，还出现石棉中毒症状。

About 125 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos at the workplace.

世界上约有1.25亿人在工作场所接触石棉。

They all inhaled fine asbestos particles from the elder Pevekar's clothes, he recalls.

他回忆，他们都吸入了老佩卡尔衣服上的石棉微粒。

One in every three deaths from occupational cancer is estimated to be caused by asbestos.

每3名患有职业性癌症的死者中，估计有一人由石棉引起。

Currently, about 125 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos at the workplace.

目前，世界上约有1.25亿人在工作场所接触到石棉。

Tsukiji, which opened in 1935, is housed in crumbling buildings, some stuffed with asbestos.

筑地鱼市，成立于1935年，栖身于摇摇欲坠的大楼里，一些大楼已经被塞入了石棉（石棉是致命的有毒物质）。

The principal forms of asbestos are chrysotile (white asbestos) and crocidolite (blue asbestos).

石棉的主要形式是温石棉（白石棉）及青石棉（蓝石棉）。

Asbestos, which was once widely used in insulation materials, is a notorious cause of lung cancer.

石棉，常见的绝缘材料，可引起肺癌。

Malignant mesothelioma is a life-threatening type of cancer commonly caused by exposure to asbestos.

恶性间皮瘤是一种致命的癌症，它通常是由于长期接触石棉而造成的。

Before I became a writer, I worked for 10 years as an electrician, until I suffered asbestos poisoning.

我成为一位作家之前，曾做过十年的电工，直到遭受石棉中毒。

In addition, it is estimated that several thousand deaths annually can be attributed to exposure to asbestos in the home.

此外，据估计，每年几千人的死亡可归咎于在家接触石棉。

Pic.1 Damage: The World Health Organisation has classified that sunbeds are as carcinogenic as smoking, asbestos and arsenic.

对人体的伤害：世界卫生组织已经将太阳床的致癌性列入和吸烟、石棉、砷的同样等级。

Ordinary residents are exposing themselves to levels of raw, friable asbestos, at incredibly high levels, and they don't care.

普通居民将自己暴露于未经加工的易碎的高浓度的石棉中，他们并不在乎。

"We didn't want to scare people," she said, explaining that spikes in asbestos readings tended to return quickly to acceptable levels.

“我们并不想使人们感到恐惧。”她解释说人们对石棉读物的反常兴趣很快会恢复到可接受的程度。

However, the particles can penetrate the lungs more deeply than asbestos and appear to cause often-fatal damage more rapidly in test animals.

然而，碳纳米管的粒子能比石棉更深入地渗透肺部，并且会更加迅速地在实验动物身上引起足以致命的伤害。

Asbestos fibers can bruise the lung tissue, leaving scars that cripple the organ's ability to process oxygen and sometimes cause lung cancer.

石棉纤维会破坏肺组织，留下损伤，削弱器官的氧气处理机能，有时还会引起肺癌。

The other carcinogen of concern, with regulations beingset by the EPA, comes from the release of asbestos with asbestos removal activities.

其他致癌污染源，EPA法规规定，是来自石棉的石棉清拆活动中释放。

Asbestos exposure is also responsible for other diseases, such as asbestosis (fibrosis of the lungs), pleural plaques, thickening and effusions.

接触石棉也能引起其他疾病，如石棉肺(肺纤维化)、胸膜斑、胸膜增厚和胸腔积液。

Through 2009, only 54 asbestos workers had received compensation from the agency, says Madhumita Dutta from the Ban Asbestos Network in Chennai.

陈奈市的禁止石棉网络成员玛霍米塔·杜塔在表示，2009年全年，仅有54名石棉工取得赔偿。