Author: Division on Earth and Life Studies

Climate change is creating impacts that are widespread and severe for individuals, communities, economies, and ecosystems around the world. While ...

As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's geophysical and chemical properties. Soil also plays a major role in several hum...

In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus re...

The Earth system functions and connects in unexpected ways - from the microscopic interactions of bacteria and rocks to the macro-scale processes t...

In 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Pharmaceutical Quality for the 21st Century Initiative to encourage adoption of i...

Modern geoscience research informs many important decisions and projects, such as geological disaster preparation, natural resource extraction, and...

The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and ...

One of the holy grails in biology is the ability to predict functional characteristics from an organism's genetic sequence. Despite decades of rese...

This letter is the abbreviated version of an update of the interim report on testing, evaluation, costs, and benefits of advanced spectroscopic por...

With the responsibility to ensure the safety of food, drugs, and other products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces decisions that m...

In 2007, the National Research Council envisioned a new paradigm in which biologically important perturbations in key toxicity pathways would be ev...

During geologic spans of time, Earth's shifting tectonic plates, atmosphere, freezing water, thawing ice, flowing rivers, and evolving life have sh...

The use of animals in research adheres to scientific and ethical principles that promote humane care and practice. Scientific advances in our under...

The United States has jurisdiction over 3.4 million square miles of ocean in its exclusive economic zone, a size exceeding the combined land area o...

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is developing a technology roadmap to guide planning and possible future congressiona...

Soldiers deployed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War were exposed to high concentrations of particulate matter (PM) and other airborne pollutants. Th...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth's systems by funding ...

Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over t...

Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a solvent that is used as a degreasing agent, a chemical intermediate in refrigerant manufacture, and a component of spo...

Fractured rock is the host or foundation for innumerable engineered structures related to energy, water, waste, and transportation. Characterizing,...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science...

Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy,...

For many years, laboratory dogs have served as important animal models for biomedical research that has advanced human health. Conducted at the req...

New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City ...