Author: Division on Earth and Life Studies

Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now...

Science is increasingly driven by data, and spatial data underpin the science directions laid out in the 2007 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science...

Evolution is the central unifying theme of biology. Yet today, more than a century and a half after Charles Darwin proposed the idea of evolution t...

Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing nu...

Our world is changing at an accelerating rate. The global human population has grown from 6.1 billion to 7.1 billion in the last 15 years and is pr...

Most countries in the world use the SI (Système International, also known as the metric system) units for radiation measurements in commercial and ...

Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their o...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is responsible for collecting informatio...

The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, in...

Volcanic eruptions are common, with more than 50 volcanic eruptions in the United States alone in the past 31 years. These eruptions can have devas...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission is to provide reliable and impartial scientific information to understand Earth, minimize loss of life an...

Convergence-based research approaches are critical in solving many scientific challenges, which frequently draw on large teams of collaborators fro...

One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produce...

Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key s...

Oil and gas well completion and stimulation technologies to develop unconventional hydrocarbon resources in the United States have evolved over the...

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal. In a...

Through direct exploration of the subseafloor, U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling programs have significantly contributed to a broad range of...

Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills ...

Produced waterwater from underground formations that is brought to the surface during oil and gas productionis the greatest volume byproduct associ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mission and regulatory responsibility to protect human health and the environment. EPA's pursu...

The continued presence of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian installations such as research reactors poses a threat to national and internat...

Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cel...

In 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established with the mission to produce plutonium for nuclear weapon...