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Climate change poses a serious threat to human health worldwide, while aging populations increase. However, no study has ever investigated the effects of air temperature on epigenetic age acceleration. This study involved 1,725 and 1,877 participants from the population-based KOR...

Many cold water-dependent aquatic organisms are experiencing habitat and population declines from increasing water temperatures. Identifying mechanisms which drive local and regional stream thermal regimes facilitates restoration at ecologically relevant scales. Stream temperatur...

Wildfire activity is increasing and can be linked to climate change effects, including rising global temperatures and more frequent drought conditions. Wildfire emissions impact human health and sensitive ecosystems, particularly in the western United States where large fire freq...

Recently, volatile chemical products (VCPs) have been increasingly recognized as important precursors for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and ozone in urban areas. However, their atmospheric chemistry, physical transformation, and their impact on climate, environment and human he...

The United States (US) population largely resides in metropolitan areas experiencing urban heat islands (UHIs) and climate change-driven temperature increases. Extreme heat has been linked to increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, yet little is known about how this associat...

Higher air temperature is associated with increased age-related morbidity and mortality. To date, short-term effects of air temperature on leucocyte telomere length have not been investigated in an adult population. We aimed to examine the short-term associations between air temp...

Riparian buffer zones (RBZs) provide multiple benefits to watershed ecosystems. We aimed to conduct an extensive sensitivity analysis of the RBZ designs to climate change nutrient and sediment loadings to streams. We designed 135 simulation scenarios starting with the six baselin...

The air quality of any given location is the result of complex interactions between meteorology and emissions through dynamical, physical, chemical, and photochemical processes. Of the many sources of air pollution, naturally produced emissions such as nitric oxide (NO) from soil...

Systematic identification, characterization and prioritization of the greatest and most urgent risks we face from global change, along with the appropriate responses, are scientific and societal grand challenges. A central issue confronting national and international research pro...

A bench-scale three-furnace experimental system was built to simulate industrial processes of applying per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS)-containing aqueous fluoropolymer dispersions to fibers and fabrics by thermally treating the coated material to affix the polymer. &nbs...

Tracer flux ratio (TFR) methodology performed at 15 active oil and natural gas production sites in Ohio County, West Virginia sought to quantify downwind emissions on several days in April 2018. In coordination with a production company, sites were randomly selected depending on ...

Characterizing the future risks of climate change is a key goal of climate impacts analysis. Temperature binning provides a framework for analyzing sector-specific impacts by degree of warming as an alternative or complement to traditional scenario-based approaches in order to im...

Methane directly contributes to air pollution, as an ozone precursor, and to climate change, generating physical and economic damages to different systems, namely agriculture, vegetation, energy, human health, or biodiversity. The methane-related damages to climate, measured as t...

Reduced complexity climate models are useful tools with practical policy applications, yet evaluation of their performance and application is nascent. We call for stakeholder-driven development and assessment to address user needs, including provision of open-source code and guid...

The brick kiln industrial sector in South Asia accounts for large amounts of short-lived climate forcer (SLCF) emissions, namely black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), and sulfur dioxide (SO2; the precursor to atmospheric sulfate [SO4]). These SLCFs are air pollutants and have i...

Coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, is an infectious fungal disease currently endemic to the southwestern United States. Symptoms of valley fever range in severity from flu-like illness to severe morbidity and mortality. Warming temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns...

Extreme heat exposure can lead to premature death. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme heat events, resulting in many additional heat-related deaths globally, as well as changing the nature of extreme cold events. At the same t...

Assessments of high-forcing climate scenarios provide unique insight into possible high-risk climate change impacts in the 21st century and beyond. Given rapid and ongoing societal changes (e.g., population growth, energy demand, technology, etc.), debates are increasing on the c...

Plastic growing demand and the increment in global plastics production have raised the number of spent plastics, out of which over 90% are either landfilled or incinerated. Both methods for handling spent plastics are susceptible to releasing toxic substances, damaging air, water...

The Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) 37 study on deep decarbonization and high electrification analyzed a set of scenarios that achieve economy-wide net-zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in North America by mid-century, exploring the implications of different technology evolutions, ...

It has been challenging to analyze inorganic arsenic (iAs) with anion exchange HPLC-Electrospray Ionization-Mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MS), because arsenite (As(III)) is difficult to retain on column and the salts in&nbsp;mobile phase&nbsp;causes ionization suppression of iAs. T...

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In April of 2018, a two-week measurement campaign was conducted to characterize methane and other gas emissions from 15 unconventional oil and natural gas production sites (well pads targeting shale) operated by Southwestern Energy in Ohio County, West Virginia. The sites were su...

Critical loads (CLs) and target loads (TLs) of atmospheric deposition of sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) specify the thresholds of air pollution above which damage to ecosystems is expected to occur and are used to inform environmental regulation and natural resource management. Mode...

Forest biological disturbance agents (BDAs) are insects, pathogens, and parasitic plants that cause tree decline and mortality. Traditionally, BDAs were thought to increase the likelihood and severity of fire by adversely affecting forest health. However, there are a wide range o...