The environment

In this century, the United States will be challenged to provide sufficient quantities of high-quality water to its growing population.

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.

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.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation(DPR)conducts human health risk assessments as part of its mission to ensure the protection of workers and public health in the state.

America is endowed with places that embody a rich geoheritage, from sites where indigenous people subsisted for millennia, to mines that furnished the raw materials that built U.

Geographic information systems (GIS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), remote sensing, and other information technologies have all changed the nature of work in the mapping sciences and in the professions, industries, and institutions that depend on them for basic research and education.

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The largest volumes of radioactive wastes in the United States contain only small amounts of radioactive material.

The United States and China are the world's top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies.

In 1994 the National Research Council published Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions, which assessed the status of various alternative destruction technologies in comparison to the Army's baseline incineration system.

Natural disasters are having an increasing effect on the lives of people in the United States and throughout the world.

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

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

Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people.

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

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

The Hanford Site was established by the federal government in 1943 as part of the secret wartime effort to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.

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

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.

From the origin of the leak, to the amount of oil released into the environment, to the spill's duration, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill poses unique challenges to human health.

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable (CSR) was established in 1997 by the National Research Council (NRC).

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

The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California.

Geographic information systems (GIS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), remote sensing, and other information technologies have all changed the nature of work in the mapping sciences and in the professions, industries, and institutions that depend on them for basic research and education.

The Water Institute of the Gulf is a not-for-profit, independent research institute dedicated to advancing the understanding of coastal, deltaic, river and water resource systems, both within the Gulf Coast and around the world.

In 1985, Congress mandated the destruction of the stockpile of M55 rockets stored at several chemical weapons storage sites in the United States and its possessions because of the risk that the rockets may self-ignite.

Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and other environmental effects.

Scientific understanding of fluid flow in rock fracturesa process underlying contemporary earth science problems from the search for petroleum to the controversy over nuclear waste storagehas grown significantly in the past 20 years.

Advanced energetic materialsexplosive fill and propellantsare a critical technology for national security.

The Safe Drinking Water Act directs the U.

The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system.

Many coastal areas of the United States are at risk for tsunamis.

This is an interim report of the ad hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations of the National Research Council's Committee on Animal Nutrition.

Great advances have been made in our understanding of the climate system over the past few decades, and remotely sensed data have played a key role in supporting many of these advances.

NASA is aware of the potential toxicologic hazards to crew that might be associated with prolonged spacecraft missions.

Rivers provide about 60 percent of the nation's drinking water and irrigation water and 10 percent of the nation's electric power needs.

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.

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People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities.

Among its key responsibilities, the U.

A large area of coastal waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico experiences seasonal conditions of low levels of dissolved oxygen, a condition known as hypoxia.

This is an interim report of the ad hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations of the National Research Council's Committee on Animal Nutrition.

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic air pollutant produced largely from vehicle emissions.

The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new policies and programs might be developed.

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic air pollutant produced largely from vehicle emissions.

Research related to chemical warfare agents (CWAs) has historically focused on life threatening battlefield effects caused by high level exposures to the agents, not effects associated with exposures to low concentrations of them.

The Office of Fuels Development (OFD), a component of the U.

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE) is responsible for the safe cleanup of sites used for nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research.

During the next several years, decisions are expected to be made in several countries on the further development and implementation of the geological disposition option.