Concerns about the planet's health call for a careful evaluation of the environmental impact of materials choices. Life-cycle assessment is a tool that can help identify sustainable materials pathways ...

Figure 1: Broad overview of the scope of life-cycle assessment (left) and of ecological or human health risk assessment (right). RA is a tool used to calculate the human and/or eco-toxicological risks ...

Every city, organization and business has something in common: a defined life cycle. Take New Orleans, for example. US Route 90—a segment of the Ponchartrain expressway—cuts through the heart of New ...