POLLUTION BLOG

Pure Earth is honored to have had a place on the TED 2026 stage in Vancouver, and we're excited to share Drew McCartor's TED Talk with the world. Watch it here and see why Forbes ranked Drew’s Talk in the...

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...

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...

Pure Earth HQ, Pure Earth Ghana and Ethiopia, and Ghana and Ethiopia EPA in Ghana Earlier this month, Pure Earth hosted a comprehensive Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop in Ghana, bringing together senior leadership and technical experts from across the...

Metal cookware is a key source of lead exposure in Ghana. A new video news piece by Nadima Umar Uthman on GHOne TV, Tracing the Toxic Pot, looks at how government regulatory authorities, such as the FDA and Ghana Health...

Lead recycled in unsafe factories is entering global supply chains and poisoning children worldwide. The Poisonous Lead Trade, a new investigative series from The Examination and The New York Times, documents how recycled lead from substandard used lead-acid battery (ULAB)...

An article in Vox titled How to buy a year of happiness, explained in one chart reports that Pure Earth is one of Vox’s “best buys” for charitable giving to improve wellbeing, based on the Happier Lives Institute report. Read more...

Blessing Enyonam Gbadago- Technical Project Officer, Pure Earth Ghana.    Blessing is an Environmental Geoscientist, and she’s making waves in her field. In an industry long dominated by men, she has carved out a space for herself, excelling and leading...

In a historic move to protect the health of Ghana’s children, Pure Earth, Blacksmith Initiative, alongside UNICEF and the Ghana Health Service, has signed a Declaration of National Action against Lead Poisoning. This crucial step was announced on 24th August...

Pure Earth Bangladesh plans to protect their country's future by accelerating nationwide awareness through the inclusion of lead pollution into the national curriculum. Learn more in this post from Bushra Humaira Sadaf, Senior Communications Manager, Pure Earth Bangladesh. Protecting Our...

"One in 36 Million" is the story of one boy, who is just one out of 36 million children living with lead poisoning in Bangladesh. The lesson of the film is that we have solutions. Help us tell this young...

To learn more about the issue, access resources and watch a recording of our EARTH DAY Dialogue "Heavy Metals In Our Food: Understanding Risks and Moving Towards Solutions," with experts from Pure Earth, Consumer Reports, the NYC Department of Health...

Out of 121 applicants from 22 countries, a team from Pure Earth Colombia emerged as one of four winners of The Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge to develop new innovations to conserve the Amazon rainforest. Pure Earth's innovative technique uses copper...

The Pure Earth Club is a school club comprised of students who are being taught and nurtured to love their environment and to protect it through the reduction of pollution, not only by words but by action. They are supervised...

In 2019, the Republic of Georgia faced a childhood lead poisoning crisis.  A national survey had revealed that 41% of children ages 2-7 in the country had blood lead levels at or above 5 μg/dL (the level at which the...

The March 2021 issue of The Lancet Planetary Health journal includes an important paper that supports Pure Earth’s previous publications asserting the extent of the childhood lead poisoning crisis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The paper, Blood lead levels...