Across the country, the main advice given to families threatened by lead exposure in soil — keep your home clean — doesn’t work, studies show. And federal guidelines about such exposure have ...

Protect your family and garden after a wildfire. Learn how and where to get your soil tested for lead, arsenic, and other ...

The final stage will look at about 30 children ages 6 months to a year old. The objective is to identify novel chemicals that can serve as tracers of children's exposure to soil and dust. The team ...

A study in which researchers compared data from 81,944 children's blood samples collected by the Louisiana Healthy Homes and Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program with topsoil lead ...

The amount of lead found in the blood of children aged 5 and younger and in soils in New Orleans were dramatically lower 10 years after Hurricane Katrina than just before the storm, according to a ...

Simple soil remediation can substantially reduce levels of the toxic metal lead in the blood of children living in heavily contaminated areas, says a new study conducted in Bangladesh.

At homes and day care centers throughout central Washington, children play in yards contaminated with lead and arsenic. The state’s Department of Ecology knows about this, and has for decades.

In January 2016, Goats & Soda reported on lead levels in the soil of neighborhoods near an abandoned smelter in Kabwe, Zambia — and in the blood of the children. For nearly 100 years, smoke from ...

To truly protect children’s health, studies have shown, soil lead concentrations across a community would need to fall below 80 parts per million, perhaps half that level, Mielke said.