Pollution & Threats to the Environment

Systematic review - a scientific investigation that focuses on a specific question and uses explicit, prespecified scientific methods to identify,...

While progress has been made in the development of decarbonization technologies, much work remains in scale-up and deployment. For decarbonization ...

The blowout of the Macondo well on April 20, 2010, led to enormous consequences for the individuals involved in the drilling operations, and for th...

This book reviews air pollutants and their effects on human health, biodiversity, and environmental quality in the context of the One Health framew...

There are many connections between human communities and their surrounding environments that influence community resilience and health in the Gulf ...

Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and...

U.S. Arctic waters north of the Bering Strait and west of the Canadian border encompass a vast area that is usually ice covered for much of the yea...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) is faced with an overwhelming task in evaluating chemicals that could potentially pose a threat to its deployed ...

Diluted bitumen has been transported by pipeline in the United States for more than 40 years, with the amount increasing recently as a result of im...

Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing ...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton...

In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1...

Environmental monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico poses extensive challenges and significant opportunities. Multiple jurisdictions manage this biogeog...

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...

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

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...

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, ...

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...

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...