Latest Research: First Study on Toxic Heavy Metals in Edible Oil in Bangladesh
Aug 29 , 2024
A recent study titled "Measurement of Heavy Metals in Commercially Available Soybean and Palm Oils and Relevant Health Risk Assessment in Bangladesh" is the first comprehensive attempt to investigate the presence of toxic heavy metals in edible oils consumed by.
ReadResearch Brief: How Are Malawi’s Rural Solar Energy Systems and Lead Poisoning Connected?
Aug 21 , 2024
Research Brief: How Are Malawi's Rural Solar Energy Systems and Lead Poisoning Connected? By Dr. Christopher Kinally, Guest Author, Pure Earth Researcher Note from the author: This blog summarises my PhD research at the University of Manchester which investigates the.
ReadNotes from the field: Dr. Jack Caravanos in Kabwe with the Guardian
May 31 , 2017
Jack measuring toxic soil with Olympus XRF, Photo by Larry C. Price Q & A with Dr. Jack Caravanos, Pure Earth’s Director of Research Jack traveled to Kabwe, Zambia, last month with The Guardian environment editor Damian Carrington and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist.
ReadTraining Toxic Site Investigators In Senegal
May 03 , 2017
Pure Earth regional director for Africa, Judith St. Fort, and senior program officer, Russell Dowling, recently returned to Senegal to help train local toxic site investigators as part of the Toxic Sites Identification Program (TSIP). Judith and Russell brought with them dozens.
ReadA Mountain Of Success in Agbogbloshie
Dec 28 , 2016
A mountain of success! Pure Earth partner GreenAd's Bennett Akuffo is shown here standing on a pile of cleanly processed plastic cable casings in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. This is what would have been burnt, releasing polluting toxic fumes, if local recyclers.
ReadProtecting Children By Cleaning Up Lead-Contaminated Yards in Kabwe
Nov 07 , 2016
This post is from Lara Crampe, Pure Earth's regional director for Southeast Asia. She is currently in Zambia working with the team on the second phase of Pure Earth’s remediation project in the Chowa neighborhood of Kabwe. This month our.
ReadWalk-Through Of Agbogbloshie E-Waste Site Spreads Message: “Burning Is Bad”
Sep 08 , 2016
Help us make a difference in Agbogbloshie and other polluted places. Donate now to support the cleanup of polluted communities worldwide. “Kona Ne Bad” or “Burning Is Bad” – that was the message splashed across tee-shirts and posters, and shouted out through.
ReadIn Cameroon: Hunting For Toxic Killers
Jul 27 , 2016
Fighting pollution does not just mean cleaning up toxic sites. It also involves a lot of behind-the-scenes work that might not make the news, such as the painstaking task of identifying, mapping, and assessing contaminated hotspots around the world. This was what.
ReadProject Highlights 2015: A String Of Firsts
Feb 23 , 2016
Over the past year, we have started to finally see a shift connecting the silos that have kept efforts on the environment, health and development in separate disciplines. The catalyst for much of this progress has come from the creation.
ReadYear In Review: Lead Free Homes For The First Time In 100 Years
Jan 18 , 2016
Of the many cleanups we conducted in 2015, our work in Kabwe, Zambia, was one of the highlights. Last year, thanks to private donations from supporters, Pure Earth’s team was able to return to Kabwe to start cleaning up one of the “World’s.
ReadSo Fresh And So Clean
Nov 25 , 2015
“I am impressed with what has been done... and this comes as a relief not only to the people of Chowa, but the entire Kabwe population. We believe that when this project is completed, more lives will be safeguarded." --.
ReadNearly 100% Of Children In This Neighborhood Have Been Poisoned
Nov 16 , 2015
Almost every single child in Chowa is suffering from lead poisoning. Nearly all of Chowa's children were found to have blood lead levels that are ten to 20 times the CDC recommended level, which can be fatal. The source of the toxin? A group.
Read(UPDATE) Transforming Agbogbloshie: From Toxic Dump Into Model Recycling Center
Jun 25 , 2015
UPDATE: June 2015 It has been eight months since Pure Earth opened the e-waste recycling center with automated wire-stripping units. We have been assessing what is working and what is not, as we enter the next phase of the project..
ReadNigeria: New Outbreak of Lead Poisoning
Jun 08 , 2015
"At the hospital, he looked fine but behaved like he was losing his mind... In the evening of the same day, his fever became severe. He was restless. He later started jerking seriously with his eyes turning, and that was how.
ReadCDC’s MMWR Features Our Findings on Lead in Kabwe’s Children
Nov 10 , 2014
The latest issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the main resource for key public health information and recommendations from the CDC, features field notes from our July trip to Kabwe, where we found devastating levels of lead poisoning.
ReadKabwe’s Children’s Silent Struggles
Oct 28 , 2014
This guest post is from Ben Barber, who visited Kabwe with the Blacksmith for a Pure Earth team in July. We arrived last July in one of the world’s most toxic hotspots -- Kabwe, a city of about 200,000 just.
ReadThe Story of A Mother and the Five Children She Lost
Jun 03 , 2014
[caption id="attachment_20195" align="alignnone" width="650"] Seynabou and her grandson in November 2021.[/caption] Seynabou had ten children, but lost five of them. One by one, each of her five youngest children fell ill with the same symptoms — seizures and convulsions. One by one,.
ReadSnapshots of Progress in 2013 – AFRICA
Jan 29 , 2014
Livelihood Training For Women Uncovering Senegal's Invisible Pollution Problem Last year, Blacksmith returned to Senegal to conduct livelihood training for women so that they will not have to go back to the deadly job of backyard battery recycling in order.
ReadTraining Women in Senegal
Oct 25 , 2013
Next month, Blacksmith returns to Senegal to provide livelihood training to women so that they will not have to go back to the dangerous job of backyard battery recycling--the activity that triggered the tragic lead poisoning outbreak in 2008 that killed 32 children in Thiaroye.
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