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- 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
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- 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
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Partnering To Solve A Global Childhood Menace: Lead
Pollution investigators from Pure Earth’s Toxic Sites Identification Program (TSIP) have been busy finding and assessing contaminated communities around the world for over a decade. Of all the pollutants they find, there’s one they keep coming across again and again … Continue reading
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A Mother’s Story: Hope in Kathgora, Bangladesh
This year, mothers in Kathgora, Bangladesh, have a big reason to celebrate–they know that their children are healthier today than they were a year ago. That’s because their children’s blood lead levels (BLL) have been almost cut in half following … Continue reading
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Brazil: Helping The Potters of Maragogipinho Go Lead Free
In May 2018, Pure Earth held a lead-free workshop for nine potters in Maragogipinho, Brazil. This was an important first step in helping a community, where some residents had blood lead levels as much as 15 times above the EPA’s level … Continue reading
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Colombia Lead Poisoning: More Children Can Now Sleep Safely With Lead-Free Mattresses
Imagine sleeping on lead-soaked mattresses. For years, parents in Malambo, Colombia, didn’t know that their children were sleeping on poison. Surrounded by five lead smelters, Malambo was heavily contaminated with lead. Over the years, lead had polluted the ground, settled … Continue reading
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Children’s Lead Levels Fall 35% Following Cleanup in Kathgora, Bangladesh
When we returned to the small village of Kathgora, Bangladesh, just months after our remediation work, we found to our delight that the impact was already measurable in the healthier children we saw. Before our cleanup, tests of 69 children … Continue reading
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Bihar, India: How we celebrated a community, and helped them take action on lead poisoning
It was a day to remember. The celebration in the public town square of Karmalichak, a community in Patna, in the state of Bihar, India, was not only fun, but potentially life-changing. Organized by our local partner, the Institute of … Continue reading
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Generational Impact of Lead Poisoning in Girls
This post is from Lara Crampe, Pure Earth’s Director of Community Outreach. This photo (above) is heartbreaking for me. The young girl in pink is chronically exposed to extremely high levels of lead because families in her village have been … Continue reading
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