Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

Further still, another danger has arisen from the wildfires—large amounts of inhalable, airborne lead. The tragedies vividly remind us how lead, a neurotoxin, can still present in communities ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi and Mira Rojanasakul At the height of the Los Angeles County wildfires, atmospheric concentrations of lead, a neurotoxin, reached 100 times average levels even miles from the ...