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- Pure Earth, USC and Macquarie University Publish Landmark Lead Study in The Lancet Planetary Health Journal March 12, 2021
- Circle of Women: Creating Safe Spaces For Innovation And Health With Traditional Potters In Mexico February 22, 2021
- Stopping Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals in Baby Food February 11, 2021
- 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
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Brazil: Helping The Potters of Maragogipinho Go Lead Free
In May 2018, Pure Earth held a lead-free workshop for nine potters in Maragogipinho, Brazil. This was an important first step in helping a community, where some residents had blood lead levels as much as 15 times above the EPA’s level … Continue reading
Posted in Latin America/Caribbean, Lead, Uncategorized
Tagged Brazil, lead poisoning
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Lead Exposure Linked to 412,000 Deaths in US; On Par With Tobacco
An important new paper from Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a member of the Pure Earth Leadership Council, and a Commissioner on The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, reveals that cardiovascular impacts of lead are under-estimated by a factor of 10. While stunning, this revelation did … Continue reading
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Tagged heart disease, lead, lead poisoning, lead pollution, TSIP, ULAB, World's Worst Polluted Places report
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Notes from the field: Dr. Jack Caravanos in Kabwe with the Guardian
Q & A with Dr. Jack Caravanos, Pure Earth’s Director of Research Jack traveled to Kabwe, Zambia, last month with The Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Larry C. Price. The Guardian just published a front-page story as a … Continue reading
Breaking the Cycle of Extreme Lead Poisoning in Pesarean, Indonesia
This week’s post is from Angela Bernhardt, Executive Director of Communications for Pure Earth. After two and a half years in our New York headquarters, I took my first trip to the field with our Southeast Asia coordinator, Lara Crampe. … Continue reading
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Mexico: Lead Exposure From Traditional Pottery
AN URGENT CALL IN THE NIGHT Earlier this year, Sandra Gualtero, Pure Earth’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, received a late-night email labelled “URGENT.” It was from a nurse in Mexico who had just discovered a newborn baby with … Continue reading
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Mexico: Lead Exposure From Traditional Pottery
Mexico: Lead Exposure From Traditional Pottery
So Fresh And So Clean
“I am impressed with what has been done… and this comes as a relief not only to the people of Chowa, but the entire Kabwe population. We believe that when this project is completed, more lives will be safeguarded.” — … Continue reading
India’s Lead Problem: More Than Just Instant Noodles
Earlier this month, there was a lead poisoning scare involving a brand of instant noodles manufactured in India. The company promptly pulled the product and samples were sent to the Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration for testing. The results – … Continue reading
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Nigeria: New Outbreak of Lead Poisoning
“At the hospital, he looked fine but behaved like he was losing his mind… In the evening of the same day, his fever became severe. He was restless. He later started jerking seriously with his eyes turning, and that was how … Continue reading
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Lead Poisoning Fact Sheet: Solutions to a Global Childhood Health Threat
Facts About Lead Poisoning and Pollution: There is no known safe level of lead exposure. The CDC lowered the level of concern from 10 to 5 µg/dL (micrograms /deciliter) as the point at which to trigger public health actions. In the … Continue reading
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