Tag: Lead

  • Nation & World

    Unpacking the power of poverty

    Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. Exactly how is less well understood. A new Harvard study points to a handful of key indicators, including exposure to high lead levels, violence, and incarceration, as key predictors of children’s later success.

    Professor Robert Sampson
  • Science & Tech

    Reading teeth

    By examining the teeth of Neanderthal infants, a team of researchers was able to glean insight into nursing and weaning behavior as well as winter and summer cycles. The study even found evidence that the Neanderthals had been exposed to lead — the earliest such exposure ever recorded in any human ancestor.

  • Health

    The ongoing tragedy of lead in our lives

    The water crisis in Flint, Mich., has been a recent focal point, but the issue of lead pollution is both global and pervasive. Harvard conference focuses on the ongoing tragedy of lead in our lives.

    Michael McCormick speaks.
  • Science & Tech

    Probing the Black Death for lead pollution insights

    The natural level of lead in the air is essentially zero, according to research backed by data from the 14th-century Black Death, when mining and smelting ceased.

  • Health

    Where lead lurks

    A Harvard Chan School researcher has launched a website to connect citizens with data on the water coming through their taps.

  • Health

    A hidden risk

    A new study by S. Allen Counter, clinical professor of neurology and director of the Harvard Foundation, shows that high levels of lead, as well as other toxic metals such as mercury and cadmium, can pass from mother to child through breast milk.

  • Science & Tech

    The EPA at 40

    EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that strong Republican gains in November’s election do not mean there is a public mandate to roll back EPA protections.

  • Campus & Community

    Florida A&M, Harvard study link between lead and hypertension

    A machine that looks as if it can emit a laser beam may be key to determining why many adults in Gadsden County have high-blood pressure.