Pure Earth is on Threads!
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Pure Earth is on Threads!
Follow us for important updates on our transformative work solving toxic pollution around the world.
Hear Dr. Chris Kinally explain the connection between solar energy systems and global lead poisoning:
This paper builds on previous work from Pure Earth Research Associate, Dr. Chris Kinally, whose PhD research investigated the environmental impacts of off-grid solar waste in sub-Saharan Africa.
New research from @cgdev.org highlights the link between off-grid solar energy and global lead poisoning. The paper estimates that the off-grid solar sector generates between 250,000 and 1.5 million tonnes of used lead-acid battery (ULAB) waste per year.
Lead poisoning affects half of children in low- and middle-income countries. But this crisis is solvable.
Pure Earth works with governments to scale proven, data-driven solutions that reduce exposure, strengthen public systems, and protect children’s health for the long term.
Learn more:
For over 25 years, Pure Earth has worked with governments and communities around the world to reduce exposure to toxic pollutants and protect children’s health.
Through TED’s Audacious Project, we’re now scaling that proven model to tackle lead poisoning in over 20 countries.
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One billion children are affected by lead poisoning worldwide, damaging brain development, limiting learning, and increasing lifelong health risks.
With support through The Audacious Project, Pure Earth is launching a new project to protect half of all children harmed by lead by 2033.
Learn more:
Follow along to stay updated on our project to protect 500 million children from lead exposure(🧵6/6): www.pureearth.org/sign-up-for-...
Reduce Exposure: We will implement solutions that reduce risk at its source, keeping children and communities lead-free. (🧵5/6)
Build Durable Systems: We will embed surveillance and prevention systems within public institutions across 20+ countries. (🧵4/6)
Pinpoint Exposure Sources: We will measure possible sources of lead in homes, markets, communities, and at contaminated sites where people have elevated lead levels to determine the most significant sources of exposure. (🧵3/6)
Reveal the Crisis: We will measure blood lead levels, generate nationally representative data, and identify the most harmful types of exposure. (🧵2/6)
Pure Earth has been named a 2025 Audacious Project grantee. Working in 20+ countries, Pure Earth will launch one of the most ambitious responses to global lead poisoning in history. Here’s how we’ll do it (🧵1/6):
We are proud to support @pureearthnow.bsky.social's Audacious vision as a partner to protect over 500m children from lead poisoning by 2033. The initiative will prevent lead exposure at its source by collaborating with govts to strengthen systems and build lasting protections for children’s health.
Pure Earth has been named a 2025 Audacious Project grantee.
Our Audacious goal: help protect more than 500 million children from lead poisoning.
This is a turning point in the global effort to tackle lead poisoning at the scale of the problem.
Learn more: www.pureearth.org/protect-500-...
Pure Earth is a global leader in improving public health and development outcomes by reducing exposure to lead and other toxic pollutants.
We partner with governments to scale evidence-based solutions, turning data into action to prevent toxic exposures.
Watch our latest video to learn more:
A new analysis from the Center for Global Development (@cgdev.org) explores whether lead poisoning may be a missing link in the global fight against child malnutrition.
Check out the full blog here:
Our latest blog from Pure Earth Ghana argues for integrating blood lead surveillance into the country’s maternal and child health (MCH) system, aligning policy, programmatic delivery, and environmental health monitoring to generate actionable data and advance equity in child health.
Have you explored our global lead pollution data map?
One of our critical open-access resources on lead, leadpollution.org is an interactive map and data repository on lead pollution.
Check it out at leadpollution.org
Pure Earth is working around the world to protect vulnerable communities from heavy metal pollution—and you can join us.
Subscribe to our newsletter to access technical resources, program updates, pollution news, and more.
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Pure Earth established the Lead Cookware Working Group to address the critical, emerging issue of lead contamination in metallic cookware and other consumer goods.
Learn more about the Lead Cookware Working Group: www.pureearth.org/project/lead...
Upcoming Webinar! Alfonso Rodríguez Pinilla, Technical Director for Pure Earth, will be a featured panelist in a webinar from Conservation X Labs on artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM).
Join the webinar on Tuesday, January 20th at 12 PM Eastern.
RSVP here: www.getdrip.com/broadcasts/9...
Join us for Gold Reimagined 2026, a webinar on outcomes and lessons from open innovation in #ASGM and our Artisanal Mining Grand Challenges.
📅 Tuesday, January 20 | 12pm ET
Simultaneous interpretation (English/Spanish)
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Pure Earth was featured in a new article in the Observer that examines why childhood lead poisoning continues to persist in the U.S., despite long-standing evidence of lead’s risks and existing solutions to address exposure.
Read the full article here:
New from the Pollution Blog: Learn about Pure Earth Peru’s progress in reducing toxic exposures in 2025.
Key advances include promoting mercury-free mining in Madre de Dios, strengthening national capacity to respond to lead exposures, and advancing regional coordination across Latin America.
With your support, we can continue scaling this work and build a safer future for communities across Peru and the world.
Every dollar you give is matched up to $40,000 through December 31, 2025, doubling your impact. (3/3)
Donate today: give.pureearth.org/give/47744
One of the most exciting parts of this work is our partnership with the Network of Women Miners. Together, we’re strengthening women’s leadership, expanding mercury-free technologies, restoring degraded lands, and improving access to fair gold markets. (2/3)
Pure Earth Peru is making exciting progress to reduce mercury pollution in the Amazon from artisanal and small-scale gold mining. (1/3)
Could your eyeliner be toxic? Earlier this year, Consumer Reports' study found concerning levels of carcinogens in synthetic braiding hair. Now a new beauty safety investigation from Pure Earth found concerning levels of lead in more than half of the 56 eyeliner samples it tested.
Pure Earth researchers tested 56 samples of kohl, kajal, & surma eyeliners available for purchase in the U.S. and found that over half of them contained dangerous levels of lead. Our report confirms that these products can pose health risks to consumers in the U.S.
www.pureearth.org/lead-in-trad...
