Author: Division on Earth and Life Studies

Accidents and terrorist attacks that lead to the release of radioactive materials can cause deaths, injuries, and a range of psychosocial effects i...

In the last 20 years, there has been a remarkable emergence of innovations and technological advances that are generating promising changes and opp...

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving ra...

Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of dise...

Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individual patients-and the sense that there are large, as...

Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas. Today, however, ecological research has been taking p...

Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societie...

International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY) was an intense, coordinated field campaign of observations, research, and analysis. It was the largest, mo...

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable (CSR) was established in 1997 by the National Research Council (NRC). It provides a science oriented apolitical fo...

Chemistry graduate education is under considerable pressure. Pharmaceutical companies, long a major employer of synthetic organic chemists, are dra...

During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Weather Service (NWS) undertook a major program called the Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR...

Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is used for two major civilian purposes: as fuel for research reactors and as targets for medical isotope production....

Over the past century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built a vast network of water management infrastructure that includes approximately 700...

Factoring health and related costs into decision making is essential to confronting the nation's health problems and enhancing public well-being. S...

The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California. It has been substantially altered by dikes, levees, chan...

Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in spa...

As geological threats become more imminent, society must make a major commitment to increase the resilience of its communities, infrastructure, and...

Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolutio...

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosive (CBRNE) events have the potential to destabilize governments, create conditio...

Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks forand in many cases is already affectinga broad ra...

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's ove...