Author: Division on Earth and Life Studies

The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is moving towards a sustained assessment process that allows for more fluid and consisten...

A decade ago, the U.S. chemical industry was in decline. Of the more than 40 chemical manufacturing plants being built worldwide in the mid-2000s w...

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE) is responsible for the safe cleanup of sites used for nuclear weapons developme...

At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learne...

There is growing concern about the possible use of toxic industrial chemicals or other hazardous chemicals by those seeking to perpetrate acts of t...

Since genetically engineered (GE) crops were introduced in 1996, their use in the United States has grown rapidly, accounting for 80-90 percent of ...

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures design...

There is little dispute within the scientific community that humans are changing Earth's climate on a decadal to century time-scale. By the end of ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is responsible for construction, operations, and maintenance of much of the nation's water resources infra...

The ocean is an integral component of the Earth's climate system. It covers about 70% of the Earth's surface and acts as its primary reservoir of h...

The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks pose...

In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established a five-year program on Understanding the Rules of Life (URoL) to identify generalizable ...

The Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas is the primary source of water for one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, San Antonio, ...

The U.S. National Climate Assessment identified a number of ways in which climate change is affecting, and is likely to affect, people, infrastruct...

Ocean science connects a global community of scientists in many disciplines - physics, chemistry, biology, geology and geophysics. New observationa...

Since 1944, the National Research Council (NRC) has published seven editions of the Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle. This reference has guided...

The National Research Council (NRC) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have released a new report, Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM E...

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation(DPR)conducts human health risk assessments as part of its mission to ensure the protection of wor...

The world's nations are moving toward agreements that will bind us together in an effort to limit future greenhouse gas emissions. With such agreem...

Outbreaks of animal disease can have catastrophic repercussions for animal agriculture, the food supply, and public health. Rapid detection, diagno...

Tetrachloroethylene is a volatile, chlorinated organic hydrocarbon that is widely used as a solvent in the dry-cleaning and textile-processing indu...

The field of quantum information science (QIS) has witnessed a dramatic rise in scientific research activities in the 21st century as excitement ha...

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

As part of its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQ...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk path...

Dual-use applications for chemical manufacturing equipment have been recognized as a concern for many years, and export-control regulations worldwi...

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

The Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas is the primary source of water for one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, San Antonio, ...

In order to better understand the critical issues pertaining to the concept of performance standards for laboratory animal use, the Institute for L...

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at...

The past 15 years have seen marked progress in observing, understanding, and predicting weather. At the same time, the United States has failed to ...

Brucellosis is a nationally and internationally regulated disease of livestock with significant consequences for animal health, public health, and ...

In the last few decades great strides have been made in chemistry at the nanoscale, where the atomic granularity of matter and the exact positions ...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

Carbon materials pervade many aspects of modern life, from fuels and building materials to consumer goods and commodity chemicals. Reaching net-ze...

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management in...

The surface of the human body and its mucous membranes are heavily colonized by microorganisms. Our understanding of the contributions that complex...

A Research Strategy to Examine the Taxonomy of the Red Wolf provides independent guidance about taxonomic research on the red wolf, Canis rufus. B...

Scientists strive to develop clear rules for naming and grouping living organisms. But taxonomy, the scientific study of biological classification ...

Humans are potentially exposed to more than 80,000 toxic chemicals in the environment, yet their impacts on brain health and disease are not well u...

BioWatch is the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) system for detecting an aerosolized biological attack using collectors that are positione...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is responsible for managing and cleaning up the waste and contamination at the H...

The Antarctic's unique environment and position on the globe make it a prime location to gain insights into how Earth and the universe operate. Thi...

Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the United States, and the nation has been a world leader in coal production for more than ...