KOLKATA: From Tollygunge to Kidderpore and Gariahat to Amherst Street, every time you buy vegetables, fish, chicken or grocery from roadside markets, you are taking home dollops of heavy metal pois

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s lead stockpiles have dropped to a “critical” level as a result of environmental inspections that have shut smelters even as demand for the metal from battery makers rema

THE challenge of lead pollution in Kabwe has been exaggerated as information publicised by some international organisations suggests that Central

There is a 71 per cent chance that the coat of paint on your house wall contains dangerously high amounts of lead, a new report says.

If you painted your house between July last year and now, there is a high chance it has high levels of lead.

'City on brink of danger; timely action need of the hour'

A study conducted by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) shows that artisans at the Suame Magazine in Kumasi – reputed to be Africa’s largest metal fabrication enclave, a

CENTRAL Province permanent secretary Chanda Kabwe has commended the World Bank for funding the lead remediation project in Kabwe aimed at mitigating the impact of lead poisoning on human health and