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May 2011: Blacksmith Wins UN-Backed Green Star Award, Blacksmith Golf Benefit, Mercury Exposure Rises Dramatically in the U.S., Cleanup of One of the World´s Worst Polluted Places

April 2011: Vietnam's Toxic Craft Villages, Video from Chernobyl, Success in Nigeria Lead Crisis (download pdf )

February 2011: New Staff, Blacksmith Journal, and Lead Projects in Philippines and Indonesia

January 2011: Inaugural Issue of Blacksmith Institute Journal of Health and Pollution

September 2010: Blacksmith's Efforts in Ghana and the Philippines

July 2010: Update on Nigeria Emergency, Closing Chapter on Tragedy in Senegal

June 2010: SPECIAL ALERT - EMERGENCY IN NIGERIA. Over 150 Children Dead from Lead Poisoning Outbreak

May 2010: Video from India, Wetlands Treatment System, GIP Expands into West Africa, Lead Update, Annual Report, Mexico Coorindator

April 2010: Earth Day Video "The Story of Lead - A Tour Through 4 Polluted Sites," Report from Agbogbloshie

March 2010: Pink Crocodiles in India, Tapping Human Ecology to Clean up Pollution in the Philippines

Feb. 2010: Pollution Research Wins Science Prize, Our Man in Russia

Jan. 2010: New Grant for Global Inventory, Video from Indonesia, Senegal Lead Cleanup

Dec. 2009: Save a Life this December

Nov. 2009: Going Online to Take Pollution Offline, World's Top Pollution Solutions

Oct. 2009 Special Bulletin - Release of 2009 Blacksmith report

Sept. 2009 - Toxic Playpen, Bringing People Together to Fight Pollution in India

Aug. 2009 - Cleaning up Kindergartens, New Projects Launch

July 2009 - Pollution: A Global Killer, a Solvable Problem

Success Stories

Water Contamination - Yunnan, China

PROBLEM: Lead, arsenic, and other metals contaminate drinking water source

SOLUTION: Retaining wall developed to store arsenic residues; drainage ditches to remove excess water flow; governmental control.

Water contamination in Wenshan province addressed using a retaining wall and governmental control.

Blacksmith News

From The Pollution Blog: A Solution To India’s Pollution Nightmare

Blacksmith Adds Experts in China

Blacksmith responds to "sensationalist" claim about tanneries and pollution

Blacksmith and World Bank Partner to Take Care of "Orphaned" Polluted Sites

Surprise – Corporations NOT the Worst Pollution Problems

Crains New York Gets an Update on La Oroya's Lead Problem

Toxins Rob More Than a Decade of Life from Millions

Toxic Pollution Sources List Highlights Public Health Challenges - Huffington Post

World's 10 Worst Toxic Pollution Problems -- Scientific American

An Engineer Without Borders and other news in our Oct. newsletter

10 Things You Might Not Know About Pollution

China's 2015 Plan

China: New Focus on Heavy Metals Pollution

Tackling India's 8 Million Ton Problem

Q&A with Blacksmith President/UNEP Expert on Pollution

Blacksmith Receives Award for Work in Environmental Emergencies

Video from Chernobyl at The Pollution Blog

Zamfara, Nigeria Lead Poisoning Crisis - Blacksmith Report

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