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- Bangladesh: Communities Learn To Fight Rice Husk Pollution October 18, 2021
- Preserving Mexico’s Pottery Tradition, Without Toxic Lead September 17, 2021
- Bangladesh: Workshop Brings Consensus; Launches Unparalleled Unified Response To Lead Poisoning Crisis August 26, 2021
- Identifying Childhood Lead Poisoning in the Philippines August 16, 2021
- Pure Earth Economic Calculator Predicts Cost of Inaction to Chemicals Exposure Across Africa July 26, 2021
- Azerbaijan: Defusing a 25-Ton Pollution “Time Bomb” Near A School in Ujar July 6, 2021
- Bangladesh: Mobilizing Tea Workers To Fight Pollution June 22, 2021
- Think Tank Report Recommends Support For Pure Earth June 10, 2021
- Investigating and Mapping Mercury Contamination in Colombia June 1, 2021
- In The News: Pure Earth’s Work On The Global Lead Poisoning Crisis May 18, 2021
- 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
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The Brown Agenda
Update: Aug, 2015. “The Brown Agenda” is now a best-selling book. Pure Earth founder Richard Fuller has chronicled his experiences doing cleanup in some of the world’s worst polluted places to highlight the issue at the ground level, and … Continue reading
Toxic Mercury Exposure: Huge Increase in U.S., 500,000 Children At Risk
Chronic mercury exposure in the U.S. has risen dramatically, not only in numbers of people affected but also in amounts. A study by Professor Dan Laks found that mercury was detected in only 2% of the blood samples collected over … Continue reading
Earth Day in the Developing World
It has been 40 years since the very first Earth Day. No doubt, things have changed for the better, at least here in the U.S. Our environment is much cleaner, and life-threatening pollution of the kind brought to light by … Continue reading
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Tagged blacksmith institute, developing countries, economic development, lead pollution, lead-based glazes, pollution blog, pollution solutions, Pollution Stories, poor countries
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Better Living Through Green Chemistry
Finally the drumbeat is getting louder on the issue of environmental toxins and I say it is about time. Last month, NYT’s Nicholas Kristof wrote an op-ed on the link between autism (and other diseases) and environmental toxins. Now, Time … Continue reading
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Innovations and Collaborations this September
I am glad to report that the Rockefeller Foundation has invited us back to the Bellagio Center in Italy this September to reconvene the next international meeting about the Health and Pollution Fund (HPF) – the planned $500 million public … Continue reading
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Tagged Bellagio, Bellagio Center, developing countries, Health and Pollution Fund, HPF, pollution solutions, Pollution Stories, Rockefeller Foundation, world's worst polluted places
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Pollution and Vaccines
An interesting new perspective has opened up on the dangers of pollution. While most people know that pollution poisons, it now seems that the immune system is especially affected by contaminants. Pollution appears to skew the body away from making … Continue reading
Pollution, Poverty and the I.Q. Connection
Does pollution plague a country because it is poor? Or does pollution make a country poor? While the case for the former can be easily made — poorer nations have less resources for cleanup and regulations; the case for the … Continue reading