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Pure Earth’s Global Call to Action During International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
Richard Fuller/Pure Earth makes Vox’s #FuturePerfect50 List
- Thank you to Matthew Modine and Roux
- Learn How Pure Earth Helped to Unravel and Solve Georgia’s Lead Poisoning Mystery in Under Two Years.
- Pure Earth Indonesia Trains Female STEM Graduates
- Pure Earth Colombia Selected as Finalist in $1 Million Challenge to Reduce Mercury in the Amazon
- See How We Are Helping Artisanal and Small-Scale Miners Transform Their Craft and the Amazon
Milestones Reached: Reducing Lead Exposure in Mexico and Bangladesh
- Stopping Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals in Baby Food
- A Year Like No Other: Looking Back and Beyond 2020
- Madeleine Albright Co-Authors Fortune Op-Ed Supporting Partnership To Protect Children From Lead Exposure
- Gold Miners Embrace Rainforest Restoration and Mercury-Free Methods
- New Retail Partner Helps Pure Earth Tackle Pollution
- Interactive Map Shows Where Children Are Being Exposed To Lead
- Call For Action Grows
- Pure Earth Golf Benefit: Sept. 21
- Video Shows Seedlings Bloom In The Rainforest
- Connect With Pure Earth Worldwide
- Mother’s Day in Kathgora
- Mothers of Change
- Helping Mexico’s Lead-Free Potters, Hard Hit By Pandemic
- Activating Communities
- Our Global Work Continues
- Partner With Us For Virtual Earth Day
- Visit Pure Earth’s Newly Updated Toxic Site Database — Available Online
- We’re in the Top 100 of Macarthur Foundation’s 100 & Change Competition!
- 2020 Vision
- Pure Earth Partners With Clean Air Fund
- Exploring Climate Connections at C40
- Pure Earth President Receives Advance Award for Social Impact
- Brazil: Helping the Potters of Maragogipinho Go Lead Free
- Pure Earth Travel Diary: What We Did This Summer
- Madagascar: United in Soccer and Pollution Cleanup
- Bangladesh: Children’s Lead Levels Fall 42%
- Georgia: Investigating A Lead Emergency
- Ukraine: Chernobyl and Radikal
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Celebrating our Impact and Building Momentum
- 2018 Key Accomplishments
- Pure Earth presents groundbreaking report on transboundary pollution
- Pollution: A Critical Link for Achieving the SDGs
- Meet Our Heroes: Pure Earth’s Global Toxic Site Investigators
- Teaching Kids to Break Free from Lead Poisoning with Puppets, Games, and a Villain Called “Lead Man”
- Rallying Support for Pollution
- Australian Honor Will Help Focus Attention on Pollution
- From The World Bank To Davos, Pure Earth Calls For Investments In Pollution Solutions
- Save The Date: April 23
- HSBC Mexico’s “Adopt A Potter” Program Takes On Urgency After Earthquake
- Minamata Convention Enters Into Force Aug 16
- Quickest Discovery Of Contaminated Sites In Two Decades
- Update On Research – Pure Earth published paper on lead and lowered IQ; Journal of Health and Pollution quadruples submissions
- Get Your Tickets Now For Our Golf Benefit: Sept. 25
- Buy and Give: Shop Our Featured Jeweler To Support Mercury-Free Mining Programs
What Is It Like To Be A Pollution Fighter? Stories From The Frontlines: Zambia, Tajikistan, Philippines
- In Zambia: Dr. Jack Caravanos Shows Reporter His Obsession With “The World’s Most Toxic Town”
- In Tajikistan: Umed Saves Families From Toxic Landowner
- In The Philippines: Follow Lara For A Week Of Toxic Investigations, And An Escape From A Fire
- Why Women Hold The Key To Fighting Pollution
- Get A “Front Row Seat” Or Be A “Lead Singer!” Reservations Open Now For The Heavy Metal Benefit Bash
- Database Of World’s Polluted Sites Now Online
- Investigating Toxic Sites In Colombia
- Pollution Info-Sessions Allow Global Experts To Share Insights, Expertise Every Two Weeks
- Hello From Around The World
Here’s How We Fought Pollution With Your Support, And Helped To Save Lives In 2016
Helping Brazil Fight Its Deadly Pollution Problems
Back To School: Educating Children, Families About What’s Poisoning Them
- Spotlight On Education
- Ghana: Educational Event At E-Waste Site In Agbogbloshie Spreads Message – “Burning Is Bad”
- Mongolia: Teaching Van Goes To Schools, Neighborhoods To Explain Dangers of Toxic Mercury
- Global: English and Portuguese Children’s Environmental Health Training Modules
- Reminder: Our Golf Fundraiser Is Coming Up
- Save The Date: Sept. 26: Play Golf, Clean Up The World
- Apply Now: Deadline Sept. 16 – Small Grants Help Correct Imbalance In Research
- Notes From The Field: Breaking The Cycle Of Extreme Lead Poisoning In Pesarean, Indonesia
- Update on Latin America: A Dirty Talk and New Research
- Update: Global Braintrust On Pollution Meets To Continue Work On Paradigm-Shifting Report
- A Mother’s Story: Mongolian “Gold Ninja” Goes Mercury-Free For Her Children
- Photo Essay: Filipino Gold Miner Travels To Peru To Demonstrate Century-Old, Mercury-Free Technique
- Thank You: Pure Earth Pure Gold Benefit Sparks Golden Opportunity To Fight Mercury Poisoning
- Planning our Strategy: New Grants, New Work
- Global Alliance Succeeds In Shaping Sustainable Development Goals
- Notes from The Field: Peru Photo Essay
- Project Snapshots: Ghana, Indonesia, Brazil
- In Their Backyards, Indonesian Gold Miners May Have Found Key To Reducing Mercury Emissions
- Toxic Beach In Azerbaijan Gets Cleaned Up
- Applications Open: Course In Research Writing
- Fighting Pollution, Fighting Poverty
- Experts Call For Nationwide Strategy To End Mexico’s Lead Crisis
- Thank You
- Match and Double Your Support
- Snapshots of Progress in 2014
- Out In The Global Field
- Putting Toxic Pollution On the World’s “To-Do” List
- Mapping Pollution, Finding “Orphans”
- Focus on Research, Giving Voice to the Underrepresented
- Report: Top Ten Countries Turning The Corner on Toxic Pollution
- Forging a Global Alliance
- New Analysis: Pollution #1 Cause of Death
- U.N. Responds to Our Call to #SpotlightPollution in the SDGs
- Breaking Mexico’s 500-Year-Old Toxic Tradition
- Soccer Field Transformed from Toxic Lead Dump To Safe Play Space
- A Toxic “Craft” Village in Vietnam Cleans Up
- How Hard Is It To Clean Up A Secret Toxic Site Sitting On Top Of A Bomb?
- What will the world focus on over the next decade?
- Eliminating pesticides in former Soviet Union
- Snapshots of progress in 2013 in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe/Central Asia
- A key year in research
- Top Ten Toxic Threats in 2013
- Helping Countries Abide by Minamata
- Bringing Poisoned Poor to the European Parliament
- Training Women in Senegal
- Why are Children in Mexico Still Suffering from Lead
- Global Remediation Guides
- Involving the Chinese public in pollution cleanup
- Wishing for a Soccer Field that does not Kill
- Fishponds in one of the World’s Worst Polluted Rivers get Help
- Blacksmith Recognized As One Of Country’s Top Performing Nonprofits Again
- Sept. 1 Deadline Fast Approaching For New Blacksmith/AuthorAID
- The New Journal of Health and Pollution is Out
- Fighting Toxic Pollution with Research
- Database of Global Hotspots Goes Public
- First Trial of Borax Method
- Toxic Rice Fields of China
- Blacksmith Addresses Toxic Trail of Old Batteries in the New York Times
- VIDEO: Mexico’s Pretty but Poisonous Problem
- 2012 Annual Report is Released
- Meet Our Global Team
- Borax Research Paper
- New Online Resource Pools Global Pollution Knowledge
- Focus on India
- VIDEO: A Coversation with Dr. Alexey Yablokov about Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Staggering Impact of Pollution
- Blacksmith Introduces Global Alliance at INC5
- Key INC5 Agreement Details
- New Report on Rising Threat of Mercury; New Project Launches in Indonesia
- Blacksmith and Vance Center Collaborate to Create Legal Guide for Contaminated Site Management
- AuthorAID Seeks Mentors for Researchers
- Nominations for Green Star Awards Due March 15
- Top 5 Ways We Beat Back Pollution in 2012
- The 2012 World’s Worst Pollution Problems Report Reveals Impact Across 49 Countries
- In the News: The 2012 World’s Worst Pollution Problems Report
- Thank You! Blacksmith’s Annual Golf Benefit Raises Thousands for Pollution Cleanup
- Unprecedented Global Alliance Forms to Fight Pollution
- Blacksmith Keeps Mercury Cleanup in Focus at INC4
- Essential Reading: Q&A with Author of “Visit Sunny Chernobyl,” and More
- Save the date: Blacksmith’s Annual Golf Benefit
- Filtering Radiation Out of Water in Kyrgyzstan’s Schools
- India: Small Projects in India with Big Potential
- Blacksmith Small Research Grants
- World Meeting on Pollution in Bellagio,
- Toxic Sites Identification Program Paper Published
- Filipino Miner’s Borax Secret
- Pakistan’s Pesticide Pollution Problem
- “Heroic NGO Takes on Big Job of Global Toxic Cleanup”
- Global Workshops in Armenia, Peru, Mexico and Uruguay
- Blacksmith Addresses Leather Industry
- The iPad and 6 Million Tons of E-Waste
- Blacksmith Gathers Support in Hong Kong
- Ghana: Sodom and Gomorrah E-Wasteland
- Blacksmith and World Bank Look After “Orphaned” Sites
- China: Blacksmith Adds Experts
- “Sensationalist” Claim
- New Report List Top Ten World’s Worst Toxic Pollution Problems With A Big Surprise
- Ten Things You Might Not Know About Pollution
- New Pollution Report Due in November
- An Engineer Without Borders
- Thank You – Golf Benefit Raises Thousands
- What is Pollution?
- Golf Benefit To Raise Funds for Global Cleanup
- Looking Ahead: China 2011-2014
- Indonesia: “Miracle” Mercury Machine
- Asia: Blacksmith Identifies 600 Polluted Sites
- India: An 8 Million Ton Toxic Waste Problem
- China: Partners Gather; New Focus on Heavy Metals
- Russia: Meeting Medvedev on Russia’s Pollution Crisis
- Philippines: National Summit Produces Five-Year Plan
- China: Bad Press, Good Press
- El Salvador: Contemplating a Nationwide “Superfund” Program
- Blacksmith Featured As UNEP Expert
- Blacksmith Wins UN-Backed Green Star Award for Work in Environmental Emergencies
- Save the Date: Blacksmith Golf Benefit Tees Off Oct. 3
- Mercury Exposure Rises Dramatically in the U.S.; One of Top Six Toxic Threats
- Paradise Remade: Cleanup of One of the World’s Worst Polluted Places
- Vietnam’s Toxic Craft Villages
- Success Story: Nigeria Lead Poisoning Cleanup Report
- A Tour of Chernobyl: 25 years Later; How Much Radiation is Dangerous?
- Call for Papers: The Journal of Health and Pollution
- Comprehensive Philippine Lead Remediation Starts Shortly
- Introducing New Additions to the Blacksmith Team
- Jakarta Lead Poisoning Initiative Enters Remediation Stage
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements for Blacksmith President Richard Fuller
- Toxic Pollution in Poor Countries – Introducing “JH&P”
- Blacksmith to publish peer-reviewed journal on health and pollution
- Upcoming press conference on lead glaze use in Mexican ceramics
- Thank you donors for your generous holiday support
- Bloomberg reports on continuing lead poisoning outbreak in Nigeria
- Links to more stories and project updates
- Philippines: River Cleanup Award
- Ghana: “Sodom and Gomorrah” E-wasteland
- Reminder: Charity Event to Raise Awareness about Global Killer, Fund Cleanup
- “The Invisible Pollution” – Video of Panel Discussion in India
- China: Replicating a Wetlands Treatment System
- Ghana: Global Inventory Project Expands into West Africa
- Mexico: Removing Lead from a Tradition
- Mexico: New Proponent
- Blacksmith Institute 2009 Annual Report
- In The News
- Blacksmith Video Spotlight
- VIDEO: The Story of Lead – A Tour Through 4 Polluted Sites
- Ghana: Report and Video from the Agbogbloshie E-Wasteland
- Pink Crocodiles in India
- Senegal: PRI’s The World Reports on Lead in Senegal
- Dominican Republic: New Park, Fresh Start in God’s Paradise
- Philippines: Tapping Human Ecology to Clean Up Pollution
- The Pollution Connection: Vaccines, Poverty, IQ and Autism
- Philippines: Pollution Research Project Wins Science Prize
- Philippines: Volunteers
- Russia: Saving Children and the Russian Desman Too
- New Grant for Global Inventory
- Lead Cleanup Continues in Senegal
- Mercury: The Burning Issue (Video of artisanal gold mines in Indonesia)
- A Champion for Children – Dr. Philip J. Landrigan
- Save a Life this December
- Behind the Global Inventory Project
- Making A List and Checking it off
- Going Online to Take Pollution Offline
- The End of Pollution? New Report Highlights Top 12 Pollution Solutions That May Pave The Way
- “Lead Head” Scientist Travels the World for Blacksmith
- Golf Benefit Raises Money for Cleanup
- Babies and Lead
- Dominican Republic: Paraíso de Dios Receives Additional Help
- Philippines: Floods and Landslides Affect Pollution Cleanup Projects
- New Blacksmith Report Out This Fall
- IAEA Taps Blacksmith’s Expertise for “Toxic Playpen
- Philippines: Toxic Stew Contaminates Essential River System
- Bringing People Together to Fight Pollution in India
- Blacksmith Golf Benefit
- Call for 2009 Nominations
- Russia: Success Story–Playgrounds, Sandboxes, Kindergartens Get Cleaned Up
- China: E-Waste Project Launches
- Mexico: Removing Toxic Lead from Ceramics
- Indonesia: Looking for Asia’s Most Polluted Sites
- India: Vapi Removed from World’s Worst List
- Blacksmith Board Member Invests in a Clean World
- Pollution: A Global Killer, A Solvable Problem
- Peru: New York Times and BBC Spotlights Blacksmith Project in La Oroya
- Senegal: Blacksmith Goes from House to House, Preparing for Children’s Return
- Ukraine: Another Chernobyl?
- India: Toxin-Eating Worms to Take on Golden Corridor
- More Experts Volunteer for Blacksmith Projects
- Health and Pollution Fund