How to investigate toxic lead lurking in your community’s soil
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Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’s a problem of the past. But its harmful legacy lingers today, particularly in the…
Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’s a problem of the past. But its harmful legacy lingers today, particularly in the…
REVIEW ESSAY Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure by Vaclav Smil MIT Press, 2023, 225 pages Do we live…
This story, a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Grist, is the third in a soil lead-contamination series…
By Mike Rampton Published: January 09th, 2023
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Pregnant people across the country lack access to safe drinking water. Grassroots organizations are stepping in when government…
Once our nation ran on slave labor. But since the end of the Civil War, the country has run on fossil fuels. Every institution…
By Tristan Sturm, Queen’s University Belfast; Jeremy Auerbach, Queen’s University Belfast, and Nuala Flood, Queen’s University…
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“I was very surprised by the fact that just over 50 percent of the population was exposed to elevated levels of lead.”
by Dan Vahaba, Duke University In 1923, lead was first added to gasoline to help keep car engines healthy. However, automotive…
Widespread use of leaded gasoline in the 1960s and 1970s guaranteed that essentially everyone born during that time was exposed…
Half of Americans have already been exposed to high lead levels. Here's what that means for brain health and Alzheimer's risk.
Lead is bad for the brain, especially kids' brains, and in the 60s and 70s leaded gas cut the IQs of hundreds of millions of…
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About half of U.S. adults alive today were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children from the burning of leaded gasoline…
In 1923, lead was first added to gasoline to help keep car engines healthy. However, automotive health came at the great…
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An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (login required) has documented the devastating impact caused…
TUESDAY, March 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Among U.S. adults who were alive in 2015, more than 53 percent are estimated to have…
In 1923, lead was first added to gasoline to help keep car engines healthy. However, automotive health came at the great…
Subtile Spätfolgen: Eine ganze Generation könnte bis heute an den Folgen einer zu hohen Bleibelastung in der Kindheit leiden…
Striking new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates lead exposure…
The decision to add lead to our gasoline a century ago continues to have implications for our health, new research this week…
Lead in gasoline may have had disastrous health implications for Americans over the age of 25, a new study finds. Researchers…
Leaded gasoline may have stolen 800 million IQ points from the country.
Exposure to leaded petrol as a child has been linked to an average IQ drop of 2.6 points among US adults, increasing to 5.9…