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Background: Air pollution risk assessments do not generally quantify health impacts using multipollutant risk estimates, but instead use results from single-pollutant or copollutant models. Multipollutant epidemiological models account for pollutant interactions and joint effects...

Atmospheric nitrate is a key atmosphere component with implications for air quality, nutrient deposition, and climate.  However, accurately representing atmospheric nitrate concentrations within atmospheric chemistry models is a persistent challenge.  A contributing fac...

Accurate fire emissions inventories are crucial to predict the impacts of wildland fires on air quality and atmospheric composition. Two traditional approaches are widely used to calculate fire emissions: a satellite-based top-down approach and a fuels-based bottom-up approach. H...

Fires emit sufficient sulfur to affect local and regional air quality and climate. This study analyzes SO2 emission factors and variability in smoke plumes from US wildfires and agricultural fires, as well as their relationship to sulfate and hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS) fo...

Microplastics (MPs) are an emerging class of pollutants in air, soil, and, especially, in all aquatic environments.  Secondary MPs are generated in the environment during fragmentation of especially photo-oxidized plastic litter. Photo-oxidation is mediated primarily by sola...

Journal article submitted to EcoHealth - (Abstract) - Lyme disease (LD) is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States (U.S.). This paper assesses how climate change may influence LD incidence in the eastern and upper midwestern U.S., and the associated economic bur...

Impoverished and under-served communities are often exposed to the worst environmental and climate hazards. Identifying these communities and building their resilience capacity to withstand such hazards is a vital justice aspect of environmental management. Building community res...

An understanding of the combined effects of climate change (CC) and other anthropogenic stressors, such as chemical exposures, is essential for improving ecological risk assessments of vulnerable ecosystems. In the Great Barrier Reef, coral reefs are under increasingly severe dur...

Assessing the effectiveness and measuring the performance of fuel treatments and other wildfire risk mitigation efforts are challenging endeavors. Perhaps the most complicated is quantifying avoided impacts. In this study, we show how probabilistic counterfactual analysis can hel...

Permafrost soils store ∼50% of terrestrial C, with Yedoma permafrost containing ∼25% of the total C. Permafrost is undergoing degradation due to thawing, with potentially hazardous effects on landscape stability and water resources. Complicating ongoing efforts to project...

Mangrove forests in developed and developing countries are experiencing substantial transformations driven by natural and anthropogenic factors. This study focuses on the conterminous United States, including Florida, Texas, and Louisiana, where coastal development, urbanization,...

Review article for an special issue in the journal of remote sensing on remote sensing in mangrove. The article highlights frontiers in remote sensing assesment and monitoring at a global scale and summarizes paper published in the special issue.

Economists typically estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) when evaluating government programs. The economic interpretation of the ATT can be ambiguous when program outcomes are measured in purely physical terms, as they often are in evaluations of ...

Mangrove forests are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world largely con-fined within ± 10 degrees latitude. The forests provide important ecosystem goods and services to nature and society. In recent years, the carbon sequestration potential and p...

Under a warmer future climate, thermal refuges could facilitate the persistence of species relying on cold-water habitat. Often these refuges are small and easily missed or smoothed out by averaging in models. Thermal infrared (TIR) imagery can provide empirical water surface tem...

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD), a product suite produced through the MultiResolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium, is an operational land cover monitoring program.  Starting from a base year of 2001, NLCD releases a land cover database every 2-3-years.&nbs...

Climate-related changes to drought, fire, and insect outbreak regimes have raised concerns that western United States forests, once disturbed, may not return or reattain prior structure and composition.  Many post-fire recruitment studies have documented absence or low densi...

Improving mental health is recognized as a key factor for achieving global development goals. There is strong evidence that neighborhood greenery promotes better mental health. However, there are environmental justice concerns over the distribution of neighborhood greenery. Under...

Review article discussing detailing the current science of monitoring and treating contaminants of emerging concern, and how water surpluses or scarcity may effect CECs.

Edge-of-field management practices that reduce nutrient pollution from tile drainage while contributing habitat and other ecosystem services are needed to enhance US Corn Belt agricultural systems. In this review, we identified edge-of-field and catchment scale agricultural conse...

Climate change is projected to impact river, lake, and wetland hydrology, with global implications for the condition and productivity of aquatic ecosystems. We integrated Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 based algorithms to track monthly surface water extent (2017–2021) for 32 sit...

The authors designed and executed the integrated assessment modeling for the United States long-term strategy. They bring diverse expertise to the modeling and analysis of United States decarbonization.

King et al. raise important issues, several of which pertain to the broader policy discourse surrounding international climate negotiations and countries’ climate pledges rather than the modeling conducted in our Policy Forum. We agree with King et al. that the updated Paris Agre...

A manuscript describing an analysis to produce an updated value for the ozone-related health impacts of methane emissions, relevant to social cost of carbon calculations.

If goals set under the Paris Agreement are met, the world may hold warming well below 2°C (1); however, parties are not on track to deliver these commitments (2), increasing focus on policy implementation to close the gap between ambition and action. Recently, the US government p...