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Environmental Contaminants and Health: Communicating the Science to the Public (Course)
Introduction Every day hundreds of educators, members of the public, and students turn to the World Wid...

Biological indicator
Biological Indicators An indicator is a numeric value derived from actual measurements of a pr...

Health effects of nickel
Introduction Pure nickel is a hard, silvery-white metal, which has properties that make it very desir...

Epidemiology and Public Health at CDC
Introduction This article was written by Stephen B. Thacker, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Fourth National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment
This article, written byBob Weinhold*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectivesthe peer-reviewed, o...

Bats' White-Nose Syndrome
Tattered Wings: Bats Grounded by White-Nose Syndromes Lethal Effects on Life-Support Functions of Wings Dama...

Air quality in a changing climate
This Editorial, written byDan Costa*, appeared first in Environmental Health Perspectivesthe peer-reviewed, op...

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NIEHS Strategic Planning: Progress
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has initiated a Strategic Planning process to ...

Synthesizing Environmental Research Results
NSF Grant Launches Center for Synthesizing Environmental and Related Research Results Award to develop solut...

Detecting ecosystem change in advance
A Tale of Two Lakes: One Gives Early Warning Signal for Ecosystem Collapse First experimental evidence that...

Air pollution worsens drought and flooding
Air Pollution a Culprit in Worsening Drought and Flooding Increases in aerosols can affect cloud develop...

Catching a Coral Killer
First ever case of human-caused marine disease. Catching a Coral Killer Coral reefs play an important ...