Since the early 1970s, experts have recognized that petroleum pollutants were being discharged in...

We live in a changing world with multiple and evolving threats to national security, including te...

Nonindigenous plants and plant pests that find their way to the United States and become invasive...

'Upstream' explores the complications and conflicts surrounding the problem of declining salmon p...

Do persons exposed to radiation suffer genetic effects that threaten their yet-to-be-born childre...

In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rese...

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

Experts in the areas of water science and chemistry from the government, industry, and academic a...

The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, a...

This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into o...

The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on ...

'From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteri...

'Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements describes various LCM ap...

Faced with the steady rise in energy costs, dwindling fossil fuel supplies, and the need to maint...

Aquaculture now supplies half of the seafood and fisheries products consumed worldwide and is gai...

The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery resulted from a study conducte...

The purpose of the committee is to provide advice on the development of a robust national spatial...

'A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been ...

For the 119 species of marine mammals, as well as for some other aquatic animals, sound is the pr...

The report examines a draft plan, prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency, that identifie...

Updating recommendations last made by the National Research Council in the mid-1980s, this report...

'Chronic and episodic water shortages are becoming common in many regions of the United States, a...

Uncertainty is a fundamental characteristic of weather, seasonal climate, and hydrological predic...

Over the past century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built a vast network of water managem...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9 11) on the United States prompted a rethinking of ...

For its annual symposium in 1984, the Food and Nutrition Board posed the key nutritional question...

'On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a publi...

Updating two previous National Research Council publications, Nutrient Requirements of Sheep, Six...

Updating two previous National Research Council publications, Nutrient Requirements of Sheep, Six...

This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the co...

'Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer exist...

'Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting ...

Since the 1950s, the International Joint Commission (IJC) of Canada and the United States has iss...

The new field of toxicogenomics presents a potentially powerful set of tools to better understand...

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

The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami sparked a humanitarian disaster in no...

Because water in the United State has not been traded in markets, there is no meaningful estimate...

Prudent Practices in the Laboratorythe book that has served for decades as the standard for chemi...

In 2007, the National Research Council envisioned a new paradigm in which biologically important ...

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been u...

The Earth system functions and connects in unexpected ways - from the microscopic interactions of...

To ensure the safety of food distributed through the National School Lunch Program, food banks, a...

The regulation of potentially hazardous substances has become a controversial issue. This volume ...

The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth's biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Ea...

Satellite remote sensing is the primary tool for measuring global changes in the land, ocean, bio...

Recognizing the importance of wetland protection, the Bush administration in 1988 endorsed the go...

Accurate and timely environmental information can provide a tactical advantage to U.S. naval forc...

'The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) conducts human health risk assessments a...