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- A Year Like No Other – Looking Back and Beyond 2020 January 21, 2021
- The Ocean Pollution-Berg December 7, 2020
- An Amazonian Mining Community Fulfilling its Obligation to the Rainforest November 3, 2020
- Partnering To Solve A Global Childhood Menace: Lead August 24, 2020
- Pure Earth Collaborates On Jewelry Collection To Fight Pollution June 16, 2020
- Helping Communities Hard Hit By COVID-19 May 26, 2020
- A Mother’s Story: Hope in Kathgora, Bangladesh May 7, 2020
- N95 Masks Used For Toxic Pollution Cleanup Donated To Hospitals Amidst Pandemic April 6, 2020
- “Quarantine” Q&A Webinars Tap Pure Earth’s Global Network Of Public Health Experts April 6, 2020
- We Will Get Through This Together – Our Global Team Responds To The Pandemic March 26, 2020
- How Are You Doing? Statement from Pure Earth President Richard Fuller March 26, 2020
- Activating Communities To Solve Pollution March 12, 2020
- Pure Earth’s Head of Research Co-Writes Textbook On Global Environmental Health March 5, 2020
- 20 Years of Pollution Solutions Countdown December 26, 2019
- Lead Poisoning Affects Over 1 Million Children in Mexico; Pottery is Main Cause December 12, 2019
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A Year Like No Other – Looking Back and Beyond 2020
At Pure Earth, we’ve defined 2020-2030 as the decade of delivering pollution solutions. Guided by CEO Richard Fuller and our new President and COO Mark Schnellbaecher, we’ve put together a ten-year strategic plan that builds upon 20 years of experience … Continue reading
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The Ocean Pollution-Berg
What’s in our oceans? It’s an ocean pollution-berg and we’re just seeing the tip of the problem. A new study from Dr. Philip Landrigan and our friends at Boston College links widespread pollution of our oceans to a multitude of … Continue reading

An Amazonian Mining Community Fulfilling its Obligation to the Rainforest
Along with local partners, Pure Earth started the reforestation of more than 3.5 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in 2017 and 2018. Another 2.5 hectares was restored in 2020. This report is from Pure Earth’s Charles Espinosa. Located … Continue reading

Partnering To Solve A Global Childhood Menace: Lead
Pollution investigators from Pure Earth’s Toxic Sites Identification Program (TSIP) have been busy finding and assessing contaminated communities around the world for over a decade. Of all the pollutants they find, there’s one they keep coming across again and again … Continue reading

Pure Earth Collaborates On Jewelry Collection To Fight Pollution
“As sustainable fashion becomes a necessity, designers and organizations dedicated to conservation are joining forces. In the past, Pure Earth has made headlines by working in some of the world’s poorest communities to combat toxic pollution, a problem linked directly … Continue reading