This paper provides a critiquing overview of how island communities deal with environmental hazards and hazard drivers, including climate change. The key activity is disaster risk reduction including ...

An international team of researchers has discovered that formaldehyde, a widely spread pollutant and common metabolite in our body, interferes in the epigenetic programming of the cell. This finding ...

Epigenetics, the chemical mechanisms that controls the activity of genes, allows our cells, tissues and organs to adapt to the changing circumstances of the environment around us. This advantage can ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teren, a leader in geospatial intelligence, is proud to announce the launch of Terevue, a groundbreaking cloud-based environmental intelligence platform that empowers pipeline ...

The Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, pictured on November 29, 2017 in the United Kingdom, has been one of dozens of ships targeted by the Houthis in the Red Sea. - David Mackinnon/AP A Greek-flagged ...

In the 1960s, fiberglass was a boon to the boating industry. It's cheap and durable but has a limited lifespan. And getting rid of it is expensive. So boat owners across the country are abandoning ...

A Hazard is anything that has the potential to cause harm, injuries, accidents or other undesirable effects. A Risk is the possibility that a personal injury, property loss or environmental harm will ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has for decades ignored its responsibility to enforce civil rights laws, as I argued last year in a First Opinion essay. Doing nothing to protect ...