SEARCH OUR SITES:

Project Completion Reports

Africa

Mercury Vapor Mitigation. Mozambique

Leaded Gas Phaseout, Senegal

Thiaroye Sur Mer, Senegal

Msimbazi River, Tanzania

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Kafue River, Zambia

Central and Eastern Europe

Mailuu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan

Bolshoi Balchug, Russia

Muslyumova, Russia

Bryansk Radioactivity, Russia

Penza Chemical Weapons, Russia

Gavrilovka, Russia

Krasnoufimsk, Russia

Rudnaya Pristan and Dalnegorsk, Russia

India

Muthia Village, India

Panki Katra, India

Bicchadi, India

Jodhpur, Pali and Balotra, India

Roro Hills Asbestos, India

Latin America

Haina, Dominican Republic

Southeast Asia

Cambodia Gold Mines

Air Quality Guidelines, Cambodia

Clark and Subic Bay, Philippines

Marilao River Watershed, Philippines

Mercury Report YTS FRY3

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.

READ MORE

Blacksmith News

What's the best way to improve health in poor countries?

Lead, chromium rob millions of health

Toxic waste sites may cause health problems for millions

Toxic Waste Sites Take Toll on Millions in Poor Nations

See what our global team is doing from Kenya to Tajikistan

Slideshow: World's Worst Pollution Problems

Borax: A safer alternative to mercury (research paper)

We've passed the red line - A conversation with Alexey Yablokov

Blacksmith's First Benefit for India

A Global Alliance for a Toxics-Free World

What's the Worst Pollutant in the World?

125 million at risk from global pollution

Reporter revisits Blacksmith-identified hotspot in "beautiful China"

The Lancet Covers the 2012 World's Worst Pollution Problems Report

Pollution as big a health problem as malaria or TB, finds report

Slideshow: Top 10 Toxic Industries

Study Argues Pollutions is as Deadly as Malaria

Blacksmith works with chemical industry to clean up legacy pollution

GAHP update, mercury negotiations and other news

Unprecedented Global Alliance to Tackle Toxic Pollution on Worldwide Scale

Ten of the most polluted places on earth

Radiation in Kyrgyzstan's Schools

The new Journal of Health and Pollution is Out - New Research on Borax, X-Ray Analyz...

Cleaning up 30 poisoned villages in India - small project, big potential

Q and A with Blacksmith about cleaning up one of world's worst polluted rivers

Getting Toxic Lead Out of Mexico's Pottery

Burning Old Computers Threatens Ghana's Health

Blacksmith Paper on Toxic Sites Identification Program

Call for Proposals - Blacksmith Small Research Grants

Filipino Gold Miner Reveals "Secret" To Reducing Global Mercury Emissions

Cleaning Mercury Out of Indonesian Gold

Cold War Threat Brings City To Brink of Disaster

Outbreak of Fatal Childhood Lead Poisoning Related to Artisanal Gold Mining in North...

Heroic NGO Takes On Big Job Of Global Toxic Cleanup

Industry Cannot Ignore Contaminated Sites

Karti Sandilya talks about pollution and his work with Blacksmith

Doe Run Peru - A Solution in Sight

Blacksmith responds to "sensationalist" claim about tanneries and pollution

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

10 Things You Might Not Know About Pollution

Video from Chernobyl at The Pollution Blog

MORE NEWS BLACKSMITH NEWSLETTER BLACKSMITH IN THE NEWS