Pollution and threats to the environment

The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort.

Across the United States, thousands of hazardous waste sites are contaminated with chemicals that prevent the underlying groundwater from meeting drinking water standards.

Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings.

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 understood.

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Degradation of the nation's water resources threatens the health of humans and the functioning of natural ecosystems.

Groundwater is a basic resource for humans and natural ecosystems and is one of the nation's most important natural resources.

Human spaceflight is inherently risky, with numerous potential hazards posed at each phase of a mission.

From the use of personal products to our consumption of food, water, and air, people are exposed to a wide array of agents each daymany with the potential to affect health.

The accuracy of chemical oceanographic measurements depends on calibration against reference materials to ensure comparability over time and among laboratories.

Protecting and maintaining water distributions systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinking water.

Watershed research is conducted by the U.

A range of natural earth materials, like arsenic or fluoride, have long been linked to significant human health effects.

Many of the pesticides applied to food crops in this country are present in foods and may pose risks to human health.

Understanding, quantifying, and tracking atmospheric methane and emissions is essential for addressing concerns and informing decisions that affect the climate, economy, and human health and safety.

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural production.

Soldiers deployed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War were exposed to high concentrations of particulate matter (PM) and other airborne pollutants.

Protecting buildings and their occupants from biological and chemical attacks to ensure continuous building operations is seen as an urgent need in the Department of Defense, given recent technological advances and the changing threats.

In the past decade, officials responsible for clean-up of contaminated groundwater have increasingly turned to natural attenuation-essentially allowing naturally occurring processes to reduce the toxic potential of contaminants-versus engineered solutions.

As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe.

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

More than half of the world's people now live in cities.

More than half of the world's people now live in cities.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

Rejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world.

The primary human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere are the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to generate electricity, the provision of energy for transportation, and as a consequence of some industrial processes.

Burning coal in electric utility plants produces, in addition to power, residues that contain constituents which may be harmful to the environment.

The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort.

Tetrachloroethylene is a volatile, chlorinated organic hydrocarbon that is widely used as a solvent in the dry-cleaning and textile-processing industries and as an agent for degreasing metal parts.

Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs.

Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world.

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs.

In focus of this volume are five emerging megacities and mega-urban regions across the globe.

In the past decade, officials responsible for clean-up of contaminated groundwater have increasingly turned to natural attenuation-essentially allowing naturally occurring processes to reduce the toxic potential of contaminants-versus engineered solutions.

The accuracy of chemical oceanographic measurements depends on calibration against reference materials to ensure comparability over time and among laboratories.

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President Carter's 1980 declaration of a state of emergency at Love Canal, New York, recognized that residents' health had been affected by nearby chemical waste sites.

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, "e;negative emissions technologies"e; (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change.

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs.

NASA's long-range plans include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter century.

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The United States Navy has been concerned for some time with protecting its military and civilian personnel from reproductive and developmental hazards in the workplace.

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 southern end.

For more than 100 years, the Coeur d' Alene River Basin has been known as "e;The Silver Valley"e; for being one of the most productive silver, lead, and zinc mining areas in the United States.

NASA's long-range plans include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter century.

For more than 100 years, the Coeur d' Alene River Basin has been known as "e;The Silver Valley"e; for being one of the most productive silver, lead, and zinc mining areas in the United States.

The issues surrounding water services are some of the most critical challenges facing not only the United States, but also the global community today.

Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions.

Emissions from mobile sources contribute significantly to air pollution in the United States.

The Water Science and Technology Board has released the first report of the Committee on PublicWater Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks, which is studying water quality issuesassociated with public water supply distribution systems and their potential risks to consumers.