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- Lead Poisoning Affects Over 1 Million Children in Mexico; Pottery is Main Cause December 12, 2019
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Pure Earth’s Global Mercury Program:
Success By The Numbers November 19, 2019 - Brazil: Helping The Potters of Maragogipinho Go Lead Free October 21, 2019
- Colombia Lead Poisoning: More Children Can Now Sleep Safely With Lead-Free Mattresses October 3, 2019
- Pollution and Climate Change – Twin Threats With Shared Sources, Solutions September 24, 2019
- Children’s Lead Levels Fall 42% Following Cleanup in Kathgora, Bangladesh September 5, 2019
- Ukraine: Chernobyl and Radikal August 13, 2019
- Madagascar: United in Soccer and Pollution Cleanup August 13, 2019
- Plogging in the Philippines: HSBC and Pure Earth Raise Awareness About Pollution August 12, 2019
- Pure Earth Pollution Experts From Around The World Gather To Share Stories: VIDEO July 9, 2019
- Two Pesticide Cleanups and a Wedding in Tajikistan, Near the Afghan Border June 17, 2019
- Lead Poisoning in Newborns: The Story Of Baby X in Mexico May 23, 2019
- Pure Earth Day: Hundreds Mobilized for Pokemon Go Pollution Cleanups and more May 6, 2019
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Tag Archives: TSIP
Pure Earth’s Toxic Site Investigators Blanket 350 Villages In The Philippines To Identify and Map Pollution Problems
This post is by Madeline Walker, Pure Earth Communications Intern. Madeline attends undergraduate college at SUNY Geneseo, where she will receive a dual degree in Political Science & Communication. One day, she hopes to pursue a career in the fields … Continue reading
Posted in Asia
Tagged Philippines, TSIP
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Walking The Earth To Find Pollution. Meet Our Toxic Site Investigators, Watch Them In Action In Brazil (VIDEO)
Pure Earth’s toxic site investigators can be found the world over. Their mission? To walk the earth in order to find, map and assess polluted sites in low and middle-income countries, where residents are being poisoned where they live. The effort … Continue reading
Posted in Latin America/Caribbean, Uncategorized
Tagged Brazil, TSIP
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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
Posted in Lead, Uncategorized
Tagged heart disease, lead, lead poisoning, lead pollution, TSIP, ULAB, World's Worst Polluted Places report
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Global Team Profile:
Umed in Tajikistan Saves Families From Homes Built On Toxic Land
When homes started being built on a highly-contaminated site in Jami district, Khatlon region, Pure Earth’s coordinator in Tajikistan, Ulugov Umidjon Amonovichis, fondly known as Umed, sprung into action. Umed informed the local authorities and presented them with all the environmental assessment data he and team members had collected via Pure Earth’s TSIP program. Understanding the threat posed to the families living in these new homes, the authorities, on the spot, reversed a 2014 approval allowing the land owner to lease property and are prosecuting him for knowingly putting residents health at risk. Continue reading
Posted in Eastern Europe/Central Asia, Obsolete Pesticides, Uncategorized
Tagged POPs, Tajikistan, toxic pollution, TSIP
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Umed in Tajikistan Saves Families From Homes Built On Toxic Land
Umed in Tajikistan Saves Families From Homes Built On Toxic Land
Training Toxic Site Investigators In Senegal
Pure Earth regional director for Africa, Judith St. Fort, and senior program officer, Russell Dowling, recently returned to Senegal to help train local toxic site investigators as part of the Toxic Sites Identification Program (TSIP). Judith and Russell brought with them dozens … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Uncategorized
Tagged pesticides, Senegal, TSIP
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Database of World’s Polluted Sites Is Now Online
For more than a decade now, Pure Earth has been training and sending investigators out across the world’s worst polluted places to identify, assess and map contaminated sites that pose a health risk to communities. The effort, part of our Toxic … Continue reading
Posted in Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP), Uncategorized
Tagged database, TSIP
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Report from Colombia: Investigating Toxic Sites
This post comes to you from Alfonso Rodríguez, Pure Earth’s new country director in Colombia. Pure Earth has expanded its Toxic Sites Identification Program (TSIP) in Colombia as part of a new project funded by USAID to reduce the threats of toxic chemical … Continue reading
Posted in Latin America/Caribbean, Uncategorized
Tagged TSIP
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