The Latest Breaking News from Lead Poisoning

More than three-quarters of the samples taken by researchers had levels of lead higher than the amount permitted by law

World’s most endangered birds returns to its ancestral skies, partners work to eliminate a persistent threat

A class action lawsuit targeting mining giant Anglo American over alleged health problems caused by lead mines in central Zambia will hear who can participate in the case in November.

The lead water crisis facing Chicago and many other US cities today has roots in a nearly century-old campaign to boost the lead industry’s sales

Wedge-tailed eagles and other protected species are at risk of being paralysed by lead poisoning in Victoria, according to wildlife advocates, with illegal lead ammunition still being used to shoot ducks.

Layla Carter says her three-year-old Vinnie has Pica - a rare eating disorder that makes him eat things such a rocks, mud and the paint peeled from walls in the house

Layla Carter, 27, is trying to get Bristol City Council to rehouse her family after her toddler son Vinnie's lead levels tested high but says her request has been denied

His mum is desperate to move out of the council flat

Pollution caused some 9 million people to die prematurely in 2019, according to a new global report published Wednesday, with experts raising alarm over increasing deaths from breathing outside air and the "horrifying" toll of lead poisoning. Human-created waste in the air, water and soil rarely kills people immediately, but…