All lead articles
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ResearchMedieval bear’s teeth shed light on historic heavy metal pollution
1000 years ago, a bear died after falling down a cave shaft in Romania’s Carpathian mountains. Was lead poisoning to blame?
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ResearchReading into the dangers of poison paint in Victorian-era books
Brightly coloured fabric covers hide poisonous dye legacy
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ResearchLead found in Beethoven’s hair reveals new insight into his ailing health
Kidney and liver problems that killed the composer, as well as hearing loss, are associated with high lead levels
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NewsTesting extends range of US chocolate foods containing lead and cadmium
Consumer Reports calls on brands to do more to lower levels of metals in their products
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FeatureThomas Midgley and the toxic legacy of leaded fuel
Leaded petrol was around for 100 years, and the campaign against it for almost as long. Mike Sutton reveals its history
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NewsLeaded petrol is finally phased out worldwide
One-hundred years after it was first developed UN hails end of an era as heavy metal is banned in fuel in Algeria
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ResearchHistorical lead from petrol still poisons London’s air 20 years after its ban
Two decades after leaded petrol was banned in the UK, the toxic metal still hangs around London’s dusty roads – and it’s not going away
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ResearchIodine revealed to be killer species that destroys tin-based perovskites
New insights into the mechanism that inactivates tin solar cells could lead to greener, more efficient devices
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NewsUS food agency targets ‘toxic elements’ in baby food
Strategy will focus on lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium
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ResearchBio-inspired scaffold sequesters lead in damaged perovskite solar cells
System to address environmental and safety concerns also boosts performance
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OpinionHow Flint tapped in to community action
How citizen science and activism can campaign for clean and safe drinking water
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OpinionInside Flint’s water crisis
Evidence of lead contamination was dismissed as resulting from a laboratory refurbishment
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ResearchFour chemical classes cost US public 270 million IQ points over 15 years
Flame retardants and pesticides linked to over a million intellectual disability cases between 2001 and 2016
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ResearchLondinium Romans’ blood lead levels so high they may have lowered birth rates
Heavy metal’s levels were more than 70 times higher than pre-Roman populations
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ResearchBronze age tin from Israeli shipwrecks was mined in Britain
Isotope analysis matches metal to mines in Devon and Cornwall suggesting ancient trade route existed
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NewsWarnings on lead in dust released during Notre Dame fire
Hundreds of tonnes of lead are thought to have melted in the blaze that consumed the iconic cathedral
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ResearchLondon soil pollution worst on former Blitz bomb sites
Study links heavy metal enrichment to destruction of housing in 1940s
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Research+2 lead hydride is world’s first
Organo-lead compound completes +2 hydride puzzle of heavy group 14 elements
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NewsHigher lead levels in blood of Flint’s young children
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports levels of lead are of concern