Author: Division on Earth and Life Studies

Sediments, ice, corals, and trees are just some of the natural storehouses of information that help tell the complicated history of Earth's climate...

During the 20th century, the city of Los Angeles diverted surface water flowing into Owens Lake for water supply, transforming the large, closed-ba...

Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s, averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover...

Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Interim Report evaluates the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's...

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, negative emissions technologies (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

New York City's water supply system is one of the oldest, largest, and most complex in the nation. It delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons of wat...

For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food d...

Marine recreational fishing is a popular activity enjoyed by more than 9 million Americans annually and is a driver of the American ocean-or blue-e...

A central goal of U.S. fisheries management is to control the exploitation of fish populations so that fisheries remain biologically productive, ec...

Continuing advances in science and technology offer the promise of providing tools to meet global challenges in health, agriculture, the environmen...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...

In thousands of communities across the United States, drinking water is contaminated with chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl sub...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other U.S. science research agencies operate a fleet of research aircraft and other ai...

Radiation exposure at low doses (below 100 milligray) or low-dose rates (less than 5 milligray per hour) occurs in a wide range of medical, industr...

Regular use of sunscreens has been shown to reduce the risk of sunburn and skin cancer, and slow photoaging of skin. Sunscreens can rinse off into ...

In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued an Interim Report evaluating the general viability of the U.S. Depart...

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

Concerted efforts to deepen understanding of RNA modifications and their role in living systems hold the potential to advance human health, improve...

Climate change is fundamentally changing ecosystems and their fire conditions, and the 2023 fire season highlighted the urgency of developing and i...

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are ...

The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our ...

The tremendous progress in biology over the last half century - from Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA to today's astonishing,...

The 2001 National Research Council (NRC) report Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science (BROES) described how basic research in the Earth sci...

To examine the potential role of companion animals as sentinels of relevant, shared environmental exposures that may affect human aging and cancer,...

Global climate change is one of America's most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activityespecially the use of fossil fuels, industria...

Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, Volume 15 identifies, reviews, and interprets relevant toxicologic and other scien...

Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting livelihoods, and sometimes necessitating federal di...

Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level ...

Environmental research has driven landmark improvements that led to the protection of human and ecosystem health. Recognizing the value of knowledg...

Extensively modified over the last century and a half, California's San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary remains biologically diverse and functions as a...

Science at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is intrinsically global, and from early in its history, the USGS has successfully carried out internat...

In the late 1980s, the National Cancer Institute initiated an investigation of cancer risks in populations near 52 commercial nuclear power plants ...

The Florida Everglades is a large and diverse aquatic ecosystem that has been greatly altered over the past century by an extensive water control i...

All six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters are listed as endangered or threatened, but the exact population sizes of these species are unk...

Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pac...