Emerging contaminants are reshaping ecosystems, yet our understanding of their community- and system-level impacts is rather limited, because conventional assessments oversimplify the real problem by ...

Environmental risk assessment (ERA) for any chemical relies on characterizing both exposure—the predicted environmental concentrations (PECs) of a substance that relevant receptors (human or species ...

The combined emissions of metals and other environmentally hazardous substances from ships is putting the marine environment at risk according to a new study from Chalmers University of Technology, ...

As described in Chapter 4, risk assessment is an important analytic tool used to evaluate the effects of environmental stressors on ecosystem and human health. This tool has been applied over the past ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (sourcing, manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require ...

The causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. To date, the virus ...

The pace at which developments of biomarkers occur tends to exceed the biomonitoring community’s ability to cope with its obligations to ensure proper transmission of information on the meaning of the ...

Discover essential risk assessment methods, including qualitative and quantitative analyses, to make informed investment ...

A man with short dark hair in a blue suit looks straight ahead as he sits in a room that is out of focus behind him. US Environmental Protection Agency deputy administrator David Fotouhi testifies at ...