Author: Division on Earth and Life Studies

The ocean has absorbed a significant portion of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions. This benefits human society by moderating the rate of clim...

The polar regions are experiencing rapid changes in climate. These changes are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees o...

The first two decades of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program have provided a successful and useful asses...

The Update to the Strategic Plan (USP) is a supplement to the Ten-Year Strategic Plan of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) completed...

The nanotechnology sector, which generated about $225 billion in product sales in 2009, is predicted to expand rapidly over the next decade with th...

In the United States (U.S.), the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, now known as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Manage...

Huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening, first observed more than a hundred years ago in Asia, is the most serious disease threat to the citrus-grow...

Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By t...

Although advances in engineering can reduce the risk of dam and levee failure, some failures will still occur. Such events cause impacts on social ...

Although ecosystems, humans, and fire have coexisted for millennia, changes in geology, ecology, hydrology, and climate as well as sociocultural, r...

To improve screening of containerized cargo for nuclear and radiological material that might be entering the United States, the Department of Homel...

As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate mode...

Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Man...

H1N1 (swine flu), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases-diseases transmitted between humans and animals. Zoon...

Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurric...

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State radically changed the physical and socio-economic landscapes of the region. The...

The academic biomedical research community is a hub of employment, economic productivity, and scientific progress. Academic research institutions a...

A great number of diverse microorganisms inhabit the human body and are collectively referred to as the human microbiome. Until recently, the role ...

Over the past century, the work of chemical engineers has helped transform societies and the lives of individuals, from the synthetic fertilizers t...

Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are a type of unconventional explosive weapon that can be deployed in a variety of ways, and can cause loss of ...

Offshore wind energy development is poised to expand rapidly across the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf over the next decade, as part of a government-...

To facilitate scientific progress and collaboration while also protecting personal privacy, the integrity of research investments, and national sec...

Fisheries are essential to the global economy and feed billions around the world; they, support individuals and communities, and sustain cultural h...