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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.&nbsp; Many post-fire recruitment studies have documented absence or low densi...

Decision makers need to know the drivers of surface water phosphorus (P) concentrations, the environmental factors that mediate P loading in freshwater systems, and where pollution sources and mediating factors are co-located. Publicly available spatial datasets of P pollution so...

Objectives: California plans to substantially increase the use of prescribed fire to reduce risk of catastrophic wildfires. Although for a beneficial purpose, prescribed fire smoke may still pose a health concern, especially among sensitive populations. We sought to understand co...

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...

Brownfields are increasingly called upon to be transformed from potentially contaminated, often vacant properties into community assets that provide multiple benefits. Decision-makers are using recent policy tools to encourage brownfields revitalization that helps to combat the c...

The read-across method is a popular data gap filling technique with developed application for multiple purposes, including regulatory. Within the US Environmental Protection Agency's (US EPA) New Chemicals Program under Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), read-across has been wi...

Communities across the world are experiencing a myriad of impacts from intensifying extreme heat, flood, drought, and wildfire events due to climate change. Further impacts can be experienced due to nearby contaminated sites and waste management facilities that are either activel...

To combat the Wildfire Crisis in the U.S., prescribed fire is being instituted at an unprecedented scale. While there are documented examples of the ability of prescribed fire to reduce the size and intensity of individual fires, and subsequently smoke produced, prescribed fire a...

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.

This study utilizes the reduced-complexity model, Framework for Evaluating Damages and Impacts (FrEDI), to rapidly assess economic and physical impacts of climate change in the contiguous United States (U.S.).

Air quality regulations decreased nitrogen (N) and sulfur deposition across the conterminous United States (CONUS) during the last several decades. But it is unclear if declining deposition has also altered stream N at large scales. We compared watershed N inputs with N chemistry...

Communities across the United States are enduring, often unexpectedly, the effects of extreme events, such as excessive heat, prolonged droughts, extreme floods, and wildfires. In places where contaminated sites and waste management facilities are also present, communities must c...

As salt marshes attempt to migrate upland due to&nbsp;sea level&nbsp;rise, they will encounter many kinds of land development and infrastructure in highly populated, urbanized coastal communities. Hazardous and contaminated sites (HCSs) -- facilities and infrastructure that store...

Building community resilience requires centering equity in resilience planning processes. Tools and resources for strengthening community resilience need to address equity in both their content and the process for using them. This is especially so for communities living in proxim...

Understanding how heat waves affect morbidity and mortality, as well as the associated economic costs, is essential for characterizing the human health impacts of extreme heat under a changing climate. Only a handful of studies have examined healthcare costs associated with expos...

The appeal of trait-based approaches for assessing environmental vulnerabilities arises from the potential insight they provide into the mechanisms underlying the changes in populations and community structure. Traits can provide ecologically based explanations for observed respo...

Enteric disease remains one of the most common concerns for public health. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) receive domestic wastewater from sewer catchments and represent a snapshot of the enteric diseases that are circulating within the serving population, mirroring communit...

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) pollution increased greatly across industrialized temperate regions during much of the 20th century. Despite significant declines in recent decades, N and S deposition continue to negatively affect the distribution of many plant species. We...

Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes. However, the underlying biogeochemical processes that affect wetland C pools and fluxes are complex and...

Climate change and human activities may alter the structure and function of boreal peatlands by warming waters and changing their hydrology. Diatoms can be used to assess or track these changes. However, effective biomonitoring requires consistent, reliable identification. To add...

Climate change is expected to result in more intense precipitation events that will affect the performance and design requirements of stormwater infrastructure.&nbsp; Such changes will vary spatially, and climate models provide a range of estimates of the effects on events of dif...

M. aeruginosa fluorescent changes were observed using a Cytek Aurora spectral flow&nbsp;cytometer that contains 5 lasers and 64 narrow band detectors located between 365 and&nbsp;829 nm. Cyanobacteria were treated with different concentrations of H2O2 and then monitored&nbsp;afte...

Abstract: Individuals with psychosocial stress often experience an exaggerated response to air pollutants. Ozone (O3 ) exposure has been associated with the activation of the neuroendocrine stress-response system. We hypothesized that preexistent mild chronic stress plus social i...

This forecasting approach may be useful for water managers and associated public health managers to predict near-term future high-risk cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHAB) occurrence. Freshwater cyanoHABs may grow to excessive concentrations and cause human, animal, and...

Triple oxygen isotope ratios (?'17O) offer new opportunities to improve reconstructions of past climate conditions by quantifying evaporation, paleohumidity, and diagenesis in geologic archives. However, the utility of ?'17O in paleoclimate applications is hampered by a limited u...