POLLUTION BLOG

Lead poisoning often strikes without warning. Children exposed to lead may show no immediate symptoms, leaving families unaware of the damage until it has already affected their brain development, behavior, and lifelong health. Because children absorb lead far more readily...

Across Ethiopia, an invisible threat is quietly shaping the lives of millions of children. It leaves no immediate scars and often goes unnoticed, yet its consequences can last a lifetime. Lead poisoning, one of the world's most pervasive and preventable...

Pure Earth’s training equips national experts to launch large-scale toxic site identification and exposure assessments in Ethiopia.  "I never realized how close lead exposure is to our daily lives; in the food we eat and the utensils we use,” says...

Pure Earth provides technical leadership in Ethiopia's coordinated response to lead contamination. In many communities across Ethiopia, lead contamination has long remained a silent yet pervasive public health concern, quietly embedded in everyday life through sources such as informal used...