Africa's clean energy transition is linked to growing lead exposure concerns
Africa's transition to cleaner energy is adding to concerns over lead poisoning from batteries used to store solar power.

As global temperatures rise, extreme heat could threaten athletes, fans, workers and officials during this year’s World Cup games.
The rush for lithium, cobalt, and nickel is ravaging livelihoods, water, and health of the world’s most vulnerable, a United Nations study says.
Parrish Medical Center in Titusville, Florida earned a gold environmental award after reducing medical waste and carbon emissions.
With hospitals generating an average of 29 pounds of waste per bed each day, how that waste is managed carries serious environmental, operational, and public health implications.
Human health relies on a healthy planet, yet the healthcare sector has a substantial negative impact on the environment.
For more than a century, the world has run on coal, then last year, it lost the lead.
Scarcity, pollution, and deregulation are putting Canada’s water supply under siege.
